Equinix Toronto TR2

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Toronto

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Ontario

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Canada

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Equinix Toronto TR2

Short Code: TR2

Year Built: 2015

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Gross Colocation Size

TR2 is also known as Parliament Street Data Centre
TR2 has metro connections to TR1, which is home to one of Canada's largest financial trading ecosystems.
Equinix's TR2 facility will have 106,500 square feet (9,984 square meters) of colocation space, and the multi-phase build will provide customers with room to expand for years to come.

Networks and Interconnection

Equinix treats TR1 and TR2 as a logical campus. Connections ordered from TR2 to TR1 will be treated as a standard Cross Connect

TR2 hosts Internet Exchange, Ethernet Exchange and Equinix Cloud Exchange™ connectivity to TR1.

Exterior Walls:

The visually appealing exterior walls were designed to evoke the look of the punch cards that were used to store and transfer data in the early days of computing. It is made of contrasting terra cotta and black material.

Building:

The exterior is made of porcelain panels reminiscent of punch cards.
Type 4-story, concrete structure with a concrete floor
Parking Street parking (for fee)
Floor Type Slab Floor Load Capacity 200 psf (9.58 kN/m2)
Flood Plain Info Zone A
Seismic Design Category C

Map and Nearby Locations

45 Parliament Street ( Toronto, Ontario M5A 0G7 )

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Sites within 15 miles of Equinix Toronto TR2

Distance	Site	About
0.97 miles	TNW Toronto
1.08 miles	Equinix Toronto TR4	The site was formerly known as "Q9 Toronto 2, 3, and 4" which were acquired by Equinix from Bell Canada in 2020.
1.08 miles	Qscale: Toronto	Qscale, a Canadian company, plans to build a multi-billion-dollar data center in Toronto.
1.08 miles	CentriLogic Toronto	CentriLogic's downtown Toronto data centre in Suite 300 at 55 York Street, a 16,000 sq ft managed services and colocation facility.
1.15 miles	eStruxture TOR-2	eStruxture's TOR-2 data centre on the eighth floor of 145 King Street West in Toronto's financial district, formerly Cogeco Peer 1 King Street.
1.18 miles	Telehouse: 151 Front Street West	Telehouse Canada's flagship carrier hotel at 151 Front Street West, beside Union Station in downtown Toronto. It is home to the Toronto Internet Exchange and to suites run by many colocation and network operators.
1.19 miles	Amanah: TOR2	Situated on the 6th floor of the same building, TOR 2 serves as a high-availability extension of TOR 1.
1.19 miles	Coloware: YTZ-1	Coloware's YTZ-1 data centre inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, opened in 2020 and expanded in 2024.
1.20 miles	eStruxture TOR-1	eStruxture's TOR-1 colocation suites inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, spread across four data halls on three floors.
1.20 miles	Digital Realty 151 Front
1.20 miles	Priority Colo TOR1
1.20 miles	Amanah: TOR1	Located on the 3rd floor, TOR 1 is Amanah's primary data center suite.
1.20 miles	Neutral Data Toronto
1.20 miles	Cologix Toronto TOR1	Cologix operates seven discrete data centre suites at 151 Front Street West (TOR1), Canada's largest carrier hotel.
1.20 miles	Equinix Toronto TR1	Equinix's facilities in Toronto has a long history that includes several acquisitions. The original suites now operated by Equinix at 151 Front Street began with RACO, a Canadian company that Switch and Data acquired in 2004.
1.21 miles	3z Canada: 151 Front
1.22 miles	Hive DC: Toronto	Hive Data Center's highly connected TOR-1 site has extensive connectivity to Canada’s largest city and direct paths to the US Mid-west.
1.22 miles	Beanfield 151 Front St	Beanfield colocation inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, with boutique multi-cabinet halls cooled by Enwave deep-lake water.
1.39 miles	Beanfield 250 Front St	Beanfield colocation at 250 Front Street West in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre block of downtown Toronto, with multi-cabinet halls cooled by Enwave deep-lake water.
1.39 miles	Telehouse: 250 Front Street West	Telehouse Canada data centre in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre at 250 Front Street West, a block from the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto.
2.60 miles	Cologix TOR3	Cologix's TOR3 data centre inside 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, with diverse fibre to Cologix TOR1 at the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel.
2.60 miles	Cologix Toronto TOR2	Cologix’s second Toronto data centre site at 905 King Street (TOR 2) was built using standards for concurrent maintainability for space, power, mechanical systems and security. The TOR 2 data centre can be utilized as a stand-alone, diverse bypass facility to Cologix's TOR 1 data centre at 151 Front Street.
2.60 miles	Beanfield 905 King St	Beanfield colocation suite inside 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, on Beanfield's own fibre network.
2.60 miles	Contegix Toronto
2.61 miles	Telehouse: 905 King Street West	Telehouse Canada data centre at 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, linked by dark fibre to the 151 and 250 Front Street West carrier hotels.
3.25 miles	Beanfield 23 Fraser	Beanfield's ground-level colocation facility at 23 Fraser Avenue in Toronto's Liberty Village, with its own generator, dual UPS and direct access to Beanfield's fibre network.
3.74 miles	TELUS: Toronto Laird	TELUS's Toronto Intelligent Internet Data Centre at 73 Laird Drive in East York, a former PSINet facility. The City of Toronto has leased data centre space there since 2007.
4.23 miles	Beeches Development: East York, ON	Toronto-based Beeches Development Inc. has proposed a new data center in the Leaside business park, marking the third iteration of plans for the site at 154-156 Wicksteed Avenue.
5.47 miles	Lumen Toronto 1
5.68 miles	Stack: TOR01C	TOR01C is a proposed 212,000 sq ft building, the third phase of Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto.
5.75 miles	Stack: TOR01B	TOR01B is a proposed 217,000 sq ft building on Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto, in site plan review.
5.76 miles	Stack: TOR01A	TOR01A is the first building on Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto. Developer First Gulf partnered with STACK to renovate the existing 89,000 sq ft building, delivered in September 2023.
8.05 miles	ILAP 210 Sheppard
8.12 miles	Whipcord Edge: Toronto TDC01
8.35 miles	Cogent: Toronto
9.03 miles	Centersquare: Etobicoke YYZ3	Centersquare's Toronto YYZ3 facility at 75-77 Fima Crescent, Etobicoke, a ~214,000 sq ft retrofit data center that Centersquare owns. It joined the portfolio in Centersquare's October 2025 ten-facility North American acquisition.
9.41 miles	eStruxture TOR-3 (Etobicoke)	eStruxture's TOR-3 data centre at 431 Horner Avenue in Etobicoke, west Toronto, with three data halls and natural gas and diesel backup generation.
9.88 miles	ServerFarm Toronto TOR1	Site is approximately 7.14 acres Three 10,000 SF data halls with ample office and conference space
10.00 miles	3z Canada: Etobicoke
10.04 miles	Canada Cloud Data Centre
10.10 miles	Edge PlazaInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.00 miles	Edgeconnex Toronto	EdgeConneX's Toronto edge data centre at 565 Gordon Baker Road in North York, a 38,900 sq ft facility opened in 2018.
11.29 miles	Yondr: Toronto TOR1	The three-story facility, being built on a 4.5-acre plot, will feature closed-loop cooling technology. The project is expected to be ready for service by mid-2026.
11.41 miles	ProInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.42 miles	Compass: North York	Compass Datacenters' Toronto data centre at 15 Fenmar Drive in North York, a two-storey building completed in 2023 for a single hyperscale tenant.
11.51 miles	Cogent Mississauga
11.58 miles	TMX: Markham Colocation	TMX Group's colocation data centre at 3500 Steeles Avenue East in Markham, built for trading firms connecting to the Toronto Stock Exchange.
11.62 miles	Content Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
11.66 miles	Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
12.24 miles	Nüday Networks
12.38 miles	Hut 8: Mississauga DC	Hut 8 acquired the facility as part of its purchase of TeraGo's data center business. The acquisition was announced in January 2022 and closed in the first quarter of 2022.
12.62 miles	1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty	Digital Realty's TOR1 wholesale data centre at 1 Century Place in Vaughan, just north of Toronto, built inside the former Toronto Star printing plant.
13.10 miles	Kyndryl: Markham
13.10 miles	371 Gough - Digital Realty	Digital Realty's YYZ10 data centre at 371 Gough Road in Markham, a 120,000 sq ft building fitted out in phases from 2014. Digital Core REIT owns a 90% interest.
13.20 miles	Centersquare: Markham YYZ2	Centersquare's YYZ2 data centre at 4175 14th Avenue in Markham, opened by CenturyLink in August 2014 as its second Toronto-area facility.
13.21 miles	Hut 8: Vaughan DC	Hut 8 acquired the facility as part of its purchase of TeraGo's data center business. The acquisition was announced in January 2022 and closed in the first quarter of 2022.
13.24 miles	eStruxture TOR-4 Scarborough	eStruxture's TOR-4 data centre at 20 Pullman Court in north Scarborough, a purpose-built facility formerly known as Cogeco Peer 1 Pullman.
13.34 miles	CampusInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.37 miles	Qu DC: Markham TOR3	The TOR3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
13.39 miles	West RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.44 miles	Priority Colo TOR2	Priority Colo's TOR2 data centre at 600 Cochrane Drive in Markham, near Highways 404 and 7, built in 2013 for higher-density deployments.
13.59 miles	Equinix Markham TR5	Equinix TR5 is a colocation data center at 8100 Warden Avenue in Markham, Ontario, Canada, that Equinix acquired from Bell Canada in October 2020.
13.84 miles	Cologix TOR5	Cologix's TOR5 data centre at 105 Clegg Road in Markham, a purpose-built 40,000 sq ft facility next to Cologix TOR4.
13.85 miles	Cologix TOR4	Cologix's TOR4 data centre in Markham, a purpose-built facility completed in October 2023, with diverse dark fibre to Cologix TOR1 at 151 Front Street West.
14.26 miles	Pathway Communications
14.28 miles	CentriLogic Mississauga (South)
14.35 miles	Urbacon: Toronto West DC7	DC7 is situated in a prime Toronto location accessible by transit and close to Canada's largest international transportation hub.
14.37 miles	Cogent: Mississauga 2
15.24 miles	Excell IT
15.49 miles	CentriLogic Mississauga (North)	18″ raised floor with hot/cold aisle configuration 24/7/365 Security & Multi-level Biometric Access Control
15.97 miles	CentriLogic: Greater Toronto, ON	CentriLogic's 28,000 sq ft purpose-built data centre at 7445 Tranmere Drive in Mississauga, opened in August 2015 in a building that earlier housed a Dell data centre.
16.47 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC4	DC4 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fourth data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 203,000 sq ft building has its permit and completed civil works.
16.50 miles	Ridge PlusInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
16.50 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC3	DC3 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' third data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 111,000 sq ft facility was handed over in two stages in 2023 and 2024.
16.54 miles	WestInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
16.60 miles	Moldenhauer: Mississauga	Moldenhauer's proposed data centre campus in southwest Mississauga, near Clarkson GO station.
16.61 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC6	DC6 is the planned sixth data centre on Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill.
16.67 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC2	DC2 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' second data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 105,000 sq ft facility was completed in October 2020.
16.69 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC1	DC1 is the first data center on Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' Barker Business Park Digital Campus in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The 118,135 sq ft facility opened in 2017.
16.76 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC5	DC5 will be Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fifth data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The planned 305,000 sq ft building is zoned for data centre use.
18.86 miles	Equinix Brampton TR6	Equinix TR6 is a colocation data center at 30 Bramtree Court in Brampton, Ontario, Canada, that Q9 Networks opened in 2005 and Equinix expanded with a new phase in 2025.
18.93 miles	Equinix Brampton TR7	The site was formerly known as "Q9 Toronto Two" which was acquired by Equinix in 2020 from Bell Canada.
18.97 miles	11:11 Systems: Mississauga, ON	11:11 Systems acquired the facility from Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) in November 2022.
19.62 miles	3z Canada: Mississauga
19.65 miles	Campus GammaInterested in this information?Contact us	Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
20.00 miles	Centersquare: Mississauga YYZ1	One story building Raised floor (inches) = 24 and 30

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Equinix TR2

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Hallway in TR2

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Parliament Street Data Centre

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