Equinix Montreal MT1

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Equinix Montreal MT1

Site was first built in 2006 and has expansions through 2026
Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec
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Site History

  • 2005: Hypertec fitted out computer rooms in the complex at 9300 route Transcanadienne.
  • October 2010: Bell Canada acquired Hypertec's hosting business and took over the site.
  • 2013: Bell added cooling towers and a generator.
  • 2014: Bell began enlarging the data centre at 6205 rue Vanden-Abeele.
  • July 2015: Bell completed a 10,000 sq ft expansion, bringing the facility to about 60,000 sq ft.
  • October 2020: Equinix completed its purchase of 13 Bell data centres, including this site.
  • 2023: Equinix bought the building, which it had leased.
  • 2025: Equinix scheduled a 250-cabinet second phase for the fourth quarter.
  • 2026: A 300-cabinet third phase is under construction for the fourth quarter.

Project Profile

  • Operator and owner: Equinix
  • Building: three storeys, part of the 9200-9300 route Transcanadienne complex
  • Space: 62,921 sq ft of colocation
  • Power: two utility feeders; rotary UPS in 2N for phase 1, 2N diesel generators for phases 2 and 3
  • Cooling: water-cooled chillers
  • Design: Uptime Institute Tier III design and constructed facility certification
  • Status: Operational, with phase 3 under construction

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0.53 miles Vantage Montreal
Vantage Montreal I is a three-storey data centre on a 5-acre campus at 2900 avenue Marie-Curie in Saint-Laurent. Vidéotron opened it in September 2016 as 4Degrés Montréal, and Vantage bought it in January 2019 and added a new wing. It offers 60,000 sq ft of data centre space and holds Uptime Institute Tier III certification.
0.55 miles Hive DC: Montreal 2
Hive Data Center's MTL-2 is reseller colocation space inside Vantage's Montreal I data centre at 2900 avenue Marie-Curie in Saint-Laurent. Hive Data Center is a Pointe-Claire colocation provider that resells space in Vantage buildings. It is not related to HIVE Digital Technologies.
0.77 miles Cologix MTL6
Cologix MTL6 is a 10,000 sq ft colocation facility at 2341 boulevard Alfred-Nobel in Saint-Laurent, in a building constructed for Nortel. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL5 occupies the neighbouring building at 2351 Alfred-Nobel.
0.79 miles Cologix MTL5
Cologix MTL5 is a colocation suite of about 5,000 sq ft in the former Nortel building at 2351 boulevard Alfred-Nobel in Saint-Laurent. Canix Colo ran the suite before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL6 sits next door at 2341 Alfred-Nobel.
1.15 miles Cologix MTL8-S (Technoparc)
Cologix MTL8 is a purpose-built, two-storey data centre of about 206,000 sq ft at 7350 rue Frederick-Banting in Technoparc Montréal, Saint-Laurent. Cologix broke ground in May 2023 under its ScaleLogix hyperscale brand and brought the building into service in 2025. It earned LEED Gold certification in November 2025.
1.32 miles TNW Montréal
TNW Networks (téliPhone) operates a small colocation facility at 1375 route Transcanadienne in Dorval, in Montreal's West Island. The facility sits in a six-storey, multi-tenant office building completed in 1991.
2.65 miles Lumen: Lachine
Lumen's Lachine facility is a single-storey, 10,240 sq ft colocation and network gateway site at 4825 rue François-Cusson in Montreal's Lachine borough. Level 3 Communications built it in 2000. It is now part of Lumen Technologies' colocation network.
2.80 miles Vantage: QC42
QC42 is a data centre building on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire. Hypertec built it as YUL01B. Vantage acquired it with Hypertec's hyperscale business in November 2020.
2.80 miles Vantage: QC43
QC43 is the third and newest data centre building on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus in Pointe-Claire. Vantage built the 94,000 sq ft building as part of a CA$900 million Canadian expansion announced in March 2022. It came online at the end of 2022.
2.83 miles Hive DC: Montreal 1
Hive Data Center's MTL-1 is reseller colocation space inside Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire. The campus is fed by a dedicated 120 kV substation. Hive Data Center is not related to HIVE Digital Technologies.
2.84 miles Vantage: QC41
QC41 is one of three data centre buildings on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire, near Montréal-Trudeau airport. Hypertec built it as part of its YUL01 campus, and Vantage acquired Hypertec's hyperscale data centre business in November 2020. The 10-acre campus totals about 320,000 gross sq ft.
3.87 miles Vantage: QC61
QC61 is Vantage's Montreal III (QC6) campus at 205 boulevard Brunswick in Pointe-Claire, a single-storey data centre with two data modules on 8 acres. Hypertec first announced the site as YUL02 in 2019, and Vantage built it from January 2022. The first phase came online in December 2022 and the final phase in December 2025.
4.31 miles Cronomagic
Cronomagic is an IT services company in Mont-Royal that sells managed colocation. Its address at 3333 boulevard Graham, suite 700, is an office suite. Its team works with third-party data centres.
4.67 miles Enovum(WhiteFiber): MTL2
Enovum MTL-2 is a data centre conversion of a 160,000 sq ft former manufacturing plant at 7300 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire. Bit Digital bought the building in December 2024 for its Enovum business, now part of WhiteFiber. WhiteFiber scheduled construction to start in the third quarter of 2026, with delivery near the end of 2026.
5.51 miles Enovum(WhiteFiber): MTL1
Enovum MTL-1 is a 64,642 sq ft Tier III data centre at 3195 chemin de Bedford in Montreal's Côte-des-Neiges area. Enovum Data Centers opened its first phase in 2021, and Bit Digital acquired Enovum in October 2024. Enovum now operates as part of WhiteFiber.
5.91 miles eStruxture Montréal MTL2
eStruxture MTL-2 is a data centre in the former Montreal Gazette printing plant at 7001 rue Saint-Jacques, about 10 km from downtown Montreal. eStruxture bought the building in December 2017 and converted it into more than 187,000 sq ft of colocation space. A second data centre at the rear of the building followed from 2023.
6.03 miles Centersquare: Montreal YUL1
Montreal YUL1 is a two-building data centre in LaSalle owned by Csquare (Centersquare), at 2711 avenue Dollard and 8501 rue Elmslie. Root Data Center fitted out the Dollard building as its first Montreal site, MTL-R1, in 2014, and the Elmslie building followed in 2019. Compass Datacenters bought Root in 2019, and Csquare acquired the site in October 2025.
6.57 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
6.69 miles eStruxture MTL-4 Kirkland
eStruxture MTL-4 is a 100,000 sq ft data centre at 17500 route Transcanadienne in Kirkland, in Montreal's West Island. Cogeco Peer 1 opened it in September 2015, and eStruxture bought it from Aptum in April 2021. The facility is built to Tier III standards.
6.69 miles Government Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
6.93 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
6.94 miles Leaseweb: MTL-02
Leaseweb MTL-02 is Leaseweb's Montreal flagship data centre, a Tier III facility at 7207 boulevard Newman in LaSalle. iWeb opened it in 2011 in a 31,000 sq ft building from 1973, and Leaseweb acquired iWeb in August 2021. It offers 12,000 sq ft of hosting space with 8,700 sq ft of raised floor.
8.48 miles Cologix MTL3
Cologix MTL3 is the carrier hotel at 1250 boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, a 47-storey office tower in downtown Montreal. Canix Colo developed the 33,000 sq ft facility and merged into Cologix in 2011. It is one of two carrier hotels in Cologix's Montreal portfolio, with MTL11.
8.51 miles Beanfield Montreal (Openface)
Beanfield's Montreal data centre is a colocation facility at 3445 avenue du Parc, near downtown Montreal. Openface ran it as Openface DC2 until Beanfield Metroconnect acquired Openface in February 2020. The site has two meet-me rooms.
8.67 miles Cologix MTL7
Cologix MTL7 is a 26,000 sq ft colocation facility at 1155 boulevard Robert-Bourassa in downtown Montreal. Cologix built it as its seventh Montreal data centre, opening the first phase in January 2014. It expanded the facility in 2019.
8.68 miles Chip: Montreal
CHIP Datacentres plans a data centre in Montreal, Quebec. CHIP operates colocation data centres in Waterloo and Kitchener, Ontario, and in Ohio and Texas.
8.68 miles Center MaxInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
8.69 miles Cologix MTL1
Cologix MTL1 is a colocation suite of about 5,000 sq ft in a 16-storey office tower at 625 boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest in downtown Montreal. Canix Colo ran the suite and merged into Cologix in 2011. It is one of 12 Cologix data centres in Montreal.
8.77 miles eStruxture MTL-5
eStruxture MTL-5 is a colocation suite at 1080 côte du Beaver Hall, Suite 1512, in a downtown Montreal office tower. It was Aptum's Montreal suite, MTL1, before eStruxture acquired Aptum's Canadian data centres in April 2021. Eleven carriers serve the suite.
8.80 miles Cologix MTL11
Cologix MTL11 is a carrier hotel facility at 875 rue Saint-Antoine Ouest in downtown Montreal, in a former 360networks telecom building. I.C.E Data Centers opened the 25,000 sq ft data centre there, and Cologix acquired its sister company Metro Optic in February 2019. It is Cologix's second Montreal carrier hotel.
8.86 miles Education Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
8.87 miles Urbacon Montreal - 544 Inspecteur
Urbacon's Montreal data centre is a 10-storey, 266,671 sq ft purpose-built wholesale facility at 544 rue de l'Inspecteur in Griffintown, about 800 metres from the downtown financial core. Urbacon and the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ developed it on a 1920 building, adding storeys above the original structure. It opened officially in September 2017 with seven dedicated data floors.
8.87 miles Vantage: Baie-d'Urfé
Vantage planned a CA$400 million data centre campus in two adjoining buildings at 21500 route Transcanadienne and 21525 avenue Clark-Graham in Baie-D'Urfé, in Montreal's West Island. Vantage bought the buildings in 2021. It cancelled the project for lack of power and sold both buildings in 2023.
8.95 miles eStruxture Montreal MTL1
eStruxture MTL-1 is a downtown Montreal colocation facility of more than 25,000 sq ft in the basement of the Tour de la Bourse at 800 rue du Square-Victoria. Netelligent opened it in 2013, and eStruxture acquired Netelligent in 2017. More than 20 carriers serve the site.
9.23 miles Kyndryl: Montreal
Kyndryl operates the former IBM data centre at 275 avenue Viger Est in downtown Montreal, a five-storey, 199,000 sq ft building on 1.4 acres. IBM opened a computer room here in 2000 and added a new data centre floor in 2010. BentallGreenOak bought the building from IBM in August 2021, and Kyndryl took over IBM's infrastructure services business that November.
9.32 miles Centersquare: Montreal Baie-d'Urfé
Compass Montreal II is a 175,000 sq ft wholesale data centre at 19701 avenue Clark-Graham in Baie-D'Urfé, in Montreal's West Island. Root Data Center converted the 1980s building into its MTL-R2 facility, and Compass Datacenters acquired Root in July 2019. The site uses KyotoCooling with hot aisle containment.
9.47 miles SmartDC: Montreal
SmartDC's Montreal data centre occupies the second floor of 4101 rue Molson in Montreal's Rosemont district. It was an internal Ubisoft data centre until SmartDC, a sister company of i3D.net in the Ubisoft group, opened it to colocation customers in November 2023. The facility has two data halls and a Tier III design.
10.02 miles Cologix MTL2
Cologix MTL2 is a 12,000 sq ft colocation facility on Nuns' Island (Île des Sœurs) in Montreal's Verdun borough. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL12 occupies an adjacent suite in the same building.
10.10 miles Cologix MTL12
Cologix MTL12 is an 8,500 sq ft colocation suite at 3000 boulevard René-Lévesque on Nuns' Island, next to Cologix MTL2 in the same building. It was a CenturyLink facility before Cyxtera ran it as YUL1 from 2017. Cologix bought it in December 2023.
10.13 miles Leaseweb: MTL-03
Leaseweb MTL-03 was a data centre at 5945 boulevard Couture in Montreal's Saint-Léonard borough. iWeb bought and converted the 1976 building in 2006, and the site passed to INAP and then Leaseweb. Leaseweb took it out of its data centre portfolio in spring 2026.
10.15 miles Leaseweb: MTL-01
Leaseweb MTL-01 is a Tier III data centre with 13,200 sq ft of colocation space at 20 place du Commerce on Nuns' Island, Montreal. Laurentian Bank built it in 1998, and iWeb moved in in May 2008. INAP bought iWeb in 2013, and Leaseweb acquired iWeb in August 2021.
11.21 miles CGI: Dickson
CGI's Dickson Data Center is a single-storey, 34,550 sq ft data centre at 3200 rue Dickson in Montreal's Mercier district. The 1988 building was the Desjardins group's computer centre before CGI took it over. The facility holds an Uptime Institute Tier III design certification.
11.41 miles Cologix MTL4
Cologix MTL4 is a 12,000 sq ft colocation facility at 7171 rue Jean-Talon Est in Montreal's Anjou borough, in the east of the island. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix renovated it again in 2013 and 2014.
12.82 miles Crypto Mining Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
14.11 miles Cologix MTL10-S
Cologix MTL10 is a data centre of more than 180,000 sq ft at 530 rue Bériault in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore, less than 10 km from downtown. Colo-D opened it as Colo-D2 in 2016, and Cologix acquired Colo-D in December 2018. Cologix expanded the site into an adjacent building in 2019 and holds land next door for more data halls.
14.43 miles OVH Beauharnois Quebec BHS
OVHcloud's Beauharnois campus (BHS) occupies the former Rio Tinto Alcan aluminium smelter at 50 rue de l'Aluminerie, next to the Beauharnois generating station southwest of Montreal. OVH opened the first data centre in January 2012. It now runs eight data centres on the site with about 90,000 servers.
15.71 miles Equinix: MT2
Equinix MT2 is a colocation data centre with about 37,800 sq ft of colocation space inside the former Ericsson Global ICT Centre, a single-storey building of about 215,000 sq ft at 3500 rue F.-X.-Tessier in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Ericsson completed the building in December 2016. Equinix opened MT2 in two 500-cabinet phases in the second half of 2023.
15.71 miles Ericsson Vaudreuil
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16.02 miles EdgeInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
16.35 miles eStruxture Montreal MTL3
eStruxture MTL-3 is a colocation facility at 1350 rue Nobel in Boucherville, on Montreal's South Shore. Kolotek opened it in 2009 as Kolotek Boucherville, and eStruxture acquired it in February 2018. eStruxture bills it as the first Tier III certified facility in Quebec.
18.46 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
19.77 miles Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)
Colo-D announced D3, a third Quebec campus on more than 22 acres in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, in October 2018. Cologix acquired Colo-D two months later. The campus was never built.
19.86 miles Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
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