Equinix: MT2

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Equinix: MT2

Short Code: MT2
Year Built: 2023
Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec
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Site History

  • December 2016: Ericsson completed its Global ICT Centre.
  • January 2018: GI Partners bought the building from Ericsson, which leased back part of it.
  • March 2021: The building changed owners.
  • April 2023: Equinix announced MT2, a US$50 million colocation project in the building.
  • 2023: Phase I opened in the third quarter with 500 cabinets.
  • 2023: Phase II added 500 more cabinets in the fourth quarter.

Project Profile

  • Operator and owner: Equinix
  • Building: single storey, reinforced steel structure, slab floor rated at 310 psf
  • Space: 37,832 sq ft of colocation
  • Power: dual 25 kV utility feeders; block-redundant UPS (N+1); 2N standby generators
  • Status: Operational

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Sites within 15 miles of Equinix: MT2

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0.08 miles Ericsson Vaudreuil
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6.67 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.
6.98 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.
9.10 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.
9.10 miles Government Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
10.38 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.
11.08 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.
11.27 miles CentralInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.84 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.
12.86 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.
12.88 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.
12.91 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.
12.91 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.
14.50 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.
14.56 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.
14.92 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.
14.95 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.
15.16 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.
15.18 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.
15.71 miles Equinix Montreal MT1
Equinix MT1 is a three-storey colocation data centre with about 62,900 sq ft of colocation space at 6205 rue Vanden-Abeele in Saint-Laurent. The site began as Hypertec's hosting rooms, became Bell's Montreal data centre in 2010, and passed to Equinix with 12 other Bell sites in October 2020. Equinix bought the building in 2023 and is adding new phases through 2026.
16.55 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.
18.30 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
18.69 miles Private Equity 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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19.81 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.

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Equinix MT2 data center in Quebec, Canada
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Data center layout showing the expansion area
Data center layout showing the expansion area
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Ericsson facility nearly finished, 2016
Ericsson facility nearly finished, 2016
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Ericsson data centre as completed
Ericsson data centre as completed
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