Manitoba Hydro Telecom Data Centre Data Center

Site History

2010: Manitoba Hydro Telecom opens the data centre in the new Manitoba Hydro Place.

2018-2019: The Manitoba Internet Exchange adds a switch here.

2022: MHT stops selling telecom services commercially and refocuses on Manitoba Hydro's own needs.

2025: The provincial budget announces that MHT will resume operations.

Project Profile

Operator: Manitoba Hydro Telecom, a division of Manitoba Hydro International

Building: Manitoba Hydro Place, a LEED Platinum office tower; the data centre occupies the 24th-floor penthouse

Power: two physically diverse substation feeds with automatic transfer, a step-down transformer, UPS and a diesel generator

Cooling: four Liebert units (two 7.5-ton and two 10-ton)

Services: locked third, half and full cabinets

Distance	Site	About
0.11 miles	Les.net: YWG4	Les.net's YWG4 is a colocation suite on the eighth floor of the Air Canada Building at 355 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a Manitoba Internet Exchange switch.
0.12 miles	Enterprise Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Enterprise data centre in downtown Winnipeg, in service since the 1980s.
0.18 miles	Les.net YWG2	Les.net's YWG2 colocation facility occupies Suite 201 on the second floor of the Somerset Building in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
0.50 miles	Les.net: YWG1	Les.net's YWG1 is a small carrier-neutral colocation facility at the company's head office on Portage Avenue East in downtown Winnipeg.
0.53 miles	XGSC: Winnipeg	XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
0.53 miles	XGSC: Global Server Centre	XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).
4.85 miles	Equinix Winnipeg WI1	Equinix WI1 is a two-storey Tier III data centre on Waverley Street in south Winnipeg. MTS built it as MTS Data Centres Waverley in 2015, and Equinix acquired it from Bell in 2020.
4.89 miles	Fintech Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Enterprise data centre in east Winnipeg, completed in 2012.
5.66 miles	Education Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	University research computing centre in Winnipeg. Waste heat warms nearby campus buildings.
6.31 miles	Cerebras: Manitoba	Cerebras Systems leases AI compute capacity from Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric network in Manitoba.
6.31 miles	North CampusInterested in this information?Contact us	BUZZ HPC, the AI cloud subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, runs an NVIDIA B200 GPU cluster in Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric data centre in Manitoba.
6.31 miles	Bell Canada: Winnipeg	Bell Canada is converting the former Merit Functional Foods plant at 400 Goldenrod Drive in the RM of Rosser, within CentrePort Canada just outside Winnipeg, into an AI data centre for its Bell AI Fabric network.
13.15 miles	Jet.AI: Winnipeg Campus	Jet.AI and Infinite Compute (formerly Consensus Core) are developing a data centre campus north of Île-des-Chênes, about 20 km south of Winnipeg. A small proof-of-concept facility sits on the site. Manitoba's premier refused the proposed hyperscale campus in June 2026.

Distance

Site

About

0.11 miles

Les.net: YWG4

Les.net's YWG4 is a colocation suite on the eighth floor of the Air Canada Building at 355 Portage Avenue in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a Manitoba Internet Exchange switch.

0.12 miles

Enterprise data centre in downtown Winnipeg, in service since the 1980s.

0.18 miles

Les.net YWG2

Les.net's YWG2 colocation facility occupies Suite 201 on the second floor of the Somerset Building in downtown Winnipeg. It hosts a node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).

0.50 miles

Les.net: YWG1

Les.net's YWG1 is a small carrier-neutral colocation facility at the company's head office on Portage Avenue East in downtown Winnipeg.

0.53 miles

XGSC: Winnipeg

XGSC's Global Server Centre is a carrier-neutral colocation facility on the fifth floor of the Grain Exchange Building, downtown Winnipeg's main carrier hotel. It hosts the primary node of the Manitoba Internet Exchange (MBIX).

0.53 miles

XGSC: Global Server Centre

4.85 miles

Equinix Winnipeg WI1

Equinix WI1 is a two-storey Tier III data centre on Waverley Street in south Winnipeg. MTS built it as MTS Data Centres Waverley in 2015, and Equinix acquired it from Bell in 2020.

4.89 miles

Enterprise data centre in east Winnipeg, completed in 2012.

5.66 miles

University research computing centre in Winnipeg. Waste heat warms nearby campus buildings.

6.31 miles

Cerebras: Manitoba

Cerebras Systems leases AI compute capacity from Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric network in Manitoba.

6.31 miles

BUZZ HPC, the AI cloud subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, runs an NVIDIA B200 GPU cluster in Bell Canada's Bell AI Fabric data centre in Manitoba.

6.31 miles

Bell Canada: Winnipeg

Bell Canada is converting the former Merit Functional Foods plant at 400 Goldenrod Drive in the RM of Rosser, within CentrePort Canada just outside Winnipeg, into an AI data centre for its Bell AI Fabric network.

13.15 miles

Jet.AI: Winnipeg Campus

Jet.AI and Infinite Compute (formerly Consensus Core) are developing a data centre campus north of Île-des-Chênes, about 20 km south of Winnipeg. A small proof-of-concept facility sits on the site. Manitoba's premier refused the proposed hyperscale campus in June 2026.