eStruxture Montréal MTL2

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Year Built: 2019
Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec
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Site History

  • 1999: The Montreal Gazette opened its printing plant on the site.
  • 2014: The Gazette closed the plant.
  • December 2017: eStruxture bought the building to convert it into a data centre.
  • September 2018: Conversion of the former paper warehouse into data halls began.
  • October 2019: eStruxture completed the conversion.
  • 2023: eStruxture began building a new data centre at the rear of the building.

Project Profile

  • Operator and owner: eStruxture
  • Building: former newspaper printing plant built in 1999
  • Space: more than 187,000 sq ft of colocation
  • Investment: about CA$150 million for the conversion
  • Power: served by multiple substations
  • Status: Operational

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1.42 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.
3.51 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.
3.81 miles Cronomagic
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4.03 miles Lumen: Lachine
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4.04 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.
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4.34 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.
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4.39 miles Cologix MTL7
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4.41 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.
4.45 miles Cologix MTL2
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4.46 miles eStruxture MTL-5
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4.53 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.
4.53 miles eStruxture Montreal MTL1
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4.58 miles Beanfield Montreal (Openface)
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4.61 miles Leaseweb: MTL-01
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5.14 miles Kyndryl: Montreal
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6.33 miles Vantage Montreal
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6.35 miles Hive DC: Montreal 2
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6.44 miles Cologix MTL6
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6.49 miles Cologix MTL5
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6.65 miles SmartDC: Montreal
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8.20 miles Vantage: QC42
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8.26 miles Hive DC: Montreal 1
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8.27 miles Vantage: QC41
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8.94 miles CGI: Dickson
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9.26 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.
9.70 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.
9.85 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.
10.22 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.
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10.63 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.
11.52 miles eStruxture MTL-4 Kirkland
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12.49 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.
13.55 miles Vantage: Baie-d'Urfé
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13.61 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.86 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.
14.88 miles Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)
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16.41 miles OVH Beauharnois Quebec BHS
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The Gazette Printing Plant Before Acquisition
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The Montreal Gazette's printing plant on St-Jacques St. when it was brand new in 2002. It was sold in 2017 to a data company.
Montreal Gazette Building
Source: Phil Carpenter - Montreal Gazette

The Montreal Gazette's printing plant on St-Jacques St. when it was brand new in 2002. It was sold in 2017 to a data company.

Entrance of MLT2
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eStruxture offers colocation, private cloud, and managed services. Headquartered in Montreal, the company provides access to an ecosystem of over 850 customers.

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