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Microsoft: Etobicoke, Toronto

Microsoft is planning to build a new data center on the site of a closed Lowe’s store between Islington Avenue and Highway 401 in Toronto, Canada. The current one-story 13,172 sqm facility at 48 Lowe’s Place will be demolished, making way for a 25,869 sqm (289,450 sq ft) two-story technology building and single-story office administration & support building.

  • The site, in the Rexdale/Etobicoke area of Toronto, currently houses a Lowe's department store, which is now closed. Previously the site was home to a brewery owned by the Labatt Brewing Co. that was built in the early 1970s and closed around 2005/2006.

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1.73 miles ServerFarm Toronto TOR1
Site is approximately 7.14 acres Three 10,000 SF data halls with ample office and conference space
3.52 miles Compass: North York
3.68 miles Cogent Mississauga
4.27 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.
4.73 miles 1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty
This site was originally operated by Dupont Fabros as TOR1 before being acquired in Sept 2017 by Digital Realty Trust in a $7.6 Billion 12 datacenter deal. Located just outside the city of Toronto in nearby Vaughan, this Canadian wholesale data centre spans over 66,000 square metres (711,000 square feet) with a critical power capacity of up to 46 megawatts. The site was the former Toronto Star Printing plant.
5.64 miles Canada Cloud Data Centre
5.74 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.
6.81 miles Whipcord Edge: TDC01
6.81 miles Canada15Edge Toronto West
7.01 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
Microsoft is investing $69 million CAD in a new data center campus in Vaughan, Ontario.
7.06 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This facility is part of Microsoft's YT011 data center campus in Vaughan, Ontario.
7.17 miles Excell IT
7.45 miles eStruxture TOR-3 (Etobicoke)
7.49 miles Compass Toronto Etobicoke
7.98 miles Beanfield 23 Fraser
8.02 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.
8.18 miles Telehouse: 905 King Street West
Telehouse has acquired three data centers in Canada, marking its entry into the country.
8.19 miles Beanfield 905 King St
8.19 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.
8.19 miles Contegix Toronto
8.19 miles Cologix TOR3
8.22 miles ILAP 210 Sheppard
8.28 miles CentriLogic Mississauga (North)
18″ raised floor with hot/cold aisle configuration 24/7/365 Security & Multi-level Biometric Access Control
8.64 miles CORE Brampton
55H, in partnership with Core Data Centers, has announced a phased expansion of its Brampton, Ontario data center. This expansion is designed to meet the growing demands of AI clients.
8.80 miles Equinix Brampton TR6
8.87 miles Equinix Brampton TR7
The site was formerly known as "Q9 Toronto Two" which was acquired by Equinix in 2020 from Bell Canada.
8.98 miles CentriLogic Mississauga (South)
9.06 miles Crypto Mining Data Center Request Dataset
Crypto firm Hive Digital (through its subsidiary Buzz High Performance Computing Inc.) has acquired a data center in Toronto, Canada.
9.06 miles Qscale: Toronto
Qscale, a Canadian company, plans to build a multi-billion-dollar data center in Toronto.
9.10 miles Telehouse: 250 Front Street West
Telehouse has acquired three data centers in Canada, marking its entry into the country.
9.19 miles eStruxture TOR-2
9.24 miles TNW Toronto
9.26 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.
9.28 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.
9.28 miles Neutral Data Toronto
9.28 miles Cologix Toronto TOR1
Cologix operates seven discrete Toronto data centres at 151 Front Street West (TOR 1), Canada’s largest and most important carrier hotel.
9.28 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.
9.28 miles Amanah: TOR1
Located on the 3rd floor, TOR 1 is Amanah's primary data center suite.
9.28 miles Priority Colo TOR1
9.28 miles Digital Realty 151 Front
9.28 miles eStruxture TOR-1
9.29 miles Amanah: TOR2
Situated on the 6th floor of the same building, TOR 2 serves as a high-availability extension of TOR 1.
9.30 miles Telehouse: 151 Front Street West
Telehouse has acquired three data centers in Canada, marking its entry into the country.
9.31 miles CenriLogic Toronto
9.57 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.
10.06 miles Urbacon Toronto - 281 Front Street
At the intersection of Front Street East and Parliament Street, 281 Front is less than one and a half kilometres from Canada’s financial heart, and directly abutting 151 Front Street, which is Toronto's carrier hotel.
10.10 miles Equinix Toronto TR2
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. TR2 hosts Internet Exchange, Ethernet Exchange and Equinix Cloud Exchange™ connectivity to TR1.
10.69 miles Lumen Toronto 1
11.90 miles 11:11 Systems: Mississauga, ON
11:11 Systems acquired the facility from Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) in November 2022.
12.34 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.
12.35 miles Edgeconnex Toronto
12.66 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
This facility will be part of the proposed Microsoft Data Centre campus, also known as the "YTO14 Data Processing Centre," in Ontario, Canada.
12.75 miles Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset
The proposed Microsoft Data Centre campus, also known as the "YTO14 Data Processing Centre," features two distinct 3-storey buildings including administration zone.
12.99 miles Centersquare: Mississauga YYZ1
One story building Raised floor (inches) = 24 and 30
13.04 miles Rogers Markham TOR DC3
The TOR3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
13.05 miles Qu DC: TOR3
The TOR3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
13.08 miles Priority Colo TOR2
13.39 miles Nüday Networks
13.98 miles Pathway Communications
14.00 miles Stack: TOR01C
Stack Infrastructure's TOR01C facility is just seven miles away from 151 Front Street. The third phase will offer 24MW to support client growth on a campus tailored as a purpose-built solution for scalability.
14.03 miles STACK Toronto TOR01
Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 Campus is just seven miles away from 151 Front Street, Toronto's largest carrier hotel and primary internet exchange point. Toronto-based developer First Gulf partnered with STACK to deliver the initial 8MW data center by renovating an existing building TOR01A.
14.08 miles Stack: TOR01B
Stack Infrastructure's TOR01B facility is just seven miles away from 151 Front Street. The 24MW phase of development features committed power from Toronto Hydro from three diverse substations using 100% renewable energy sources.
14.15 miles Cologix TOR4
Close to downtown Toronto in Markham, the Scalelogix TOR4-S data center has diverse dark fiber connectivity between TOR4-S and TOR1 at 151 Front Street
14.15 miles 1547 Ontario TOON1
The building was sold to 1547 Critical Systems Realty in 2018. As part of the deal, 1547 will handle wholesale deals in the building. While I.C.E will manage all the retail colocation deployments.
14.15 miles CORE: Markham
14.26 miles Prologis: Mississauga
Prologis has filed to develop a 220,000 sq ft data center in Mississauga, Ontario, through a zoning amendment application, with the project still in early planning and potentially competing with alternative industrial development options.
14.28 miles Equinix Markham TR5
14.31 miles 371 Gough - Digital Realty
The site will support (5) 1,350 kW data center suites measuring approximately 10,000 sq. ft. each
14.61 miles Centersquare: Markham YYZ2
14.64 miles Urbacon: Richmond DC4
DC4 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fourth data center on the Richmond Hill Campus. The facility spans an area of 200,000 square feet.
14.71 miles Urbacon: Richmond DC3
DC3 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' third data center on the Richmond Hill Campus. The facility spans an area of 111,000 square feet.
14.82 miles Urbacon: Richmond DC2
DC2 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' second data center on the Richmond Hill Campus. The 105,000 square-foot facility came online in 2018.
14.90 miles Urbacon - Richmond Hill, ON
The Barker Business Park Digital Campus is in the process of being built out and will eventually accommodate over 900,000 SF data center space close to Toronto.
14.99 miles Urbacon: Richmond DC6
DC6 will be Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' sixth data center on the Richmond Hill Campus. The facility will span an area of 200,000 square feet.
15.09 miles Urbacon: Richmond DC5
DC5 will be Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fifth data center on the Richmond Hill Campus. The facility will span an area of 200,000 square feet.
17.20 miles eStruxture TOR-4 Scarborough

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The Lowe's store currently occupying the proposed Microsoft site
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State of Azure Locations as of July 2019
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Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram
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Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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