Equinix Ottawa OT1

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Equinix Ottawa OT1

Year Built: 2012

Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec

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Equinix owns and operates OT1, a four-storey, 67,524 sq ft data centre in Gatineau that serves the Ottawa-Gatineau market. It offers 21,400 sq ft of colocation space. Bell Canada built it as its Ottawa Region Data Centre.

Site History

November 2020: Equinix acquired the site from Bell, a month after closing its purchase of 12 other Bell data centres.
2012: Bell Canada built the data centre.

Project Profile

Design: Uptime Institute Tier III design and constructed facility certification
Power: single utility feeder; four rotary UPS power blocks, N+1
Cooling: free cooling with heat wheels
Certification: LEED Gold

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Sites within 15 miles of Equinix Ottawa OT1

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0.00 miles	Government Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.71 miles	Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
17.72 miles	Fibre Centre: Ottawa

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