OVH Beauharnois Quebec BHS

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OVH Beauharnois Quebec BHS

Short Code: BHS-1, BHS-2, BHS-3, BHS-4, BHS-5, BHS-6
Year Built: 2012
Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec
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Site History

  • January 2012: OVH opened BHS1 in the former smelter, with two hosting towers built for 10,000 servers each.
  • 2016: OVH opened additional data centres on the campus.
  • 2022: The campus counted eight data centres and about 90,000 servers.
  • 2023: OVH announced plans for a ninth data centre, BHS9.

Project Profile

  • Operator and owner: OVHcloud
  • Site: former aluminium smelter, about 27 acres
  • Buildings: eight data centres, BHS1 to BHS8; BHS8 is the newest hall
  • Scale: about 90,000 servers
  • Status: Operational

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1.65 miles CentralInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
8.00 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.
8.50 miles Vantage: Baie-d'Urfé
Vantage planned a CA$400 million data centre campus in two adjoining buildings at 21500 route Transcanadienne and 21525 avenue Clark-Graham in Baie-D'Urfé, in Montreal's West Island. Vantage bought the buildings in 2021. It cancelled the project for lack of power and sold both buildings in 2023.
9.58 miles eStruxture MTL-4 Kirkland
eStruxture MTL-4 is a 100,000 sq ft data centre at 17500 route Transcanadienne in Kirkland, in Montreal's West Island. Cogeco Peer 1 opened it in September 2015, and eStruxture bought it from Aptum in April 2021. The facility is built to Tier III standards.
9.58 miles Government Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
10.38 miles Equinix: MT2
Equinix MT2 is a colocation data centre with about 37,800 sq ft of colocation space inside the former Ericsson Global ICT Centre, a single-storey building of about 215,000 sq ft at 3500 rue F.-X.-Tessier in Vaudreuil-Dorion. Ericsson completed the building in December 2016. Equinix opened MT2 in two 500-cabinet phases in the second half of 2023.
10.46 miles Ericsson Vaudreuil
Duplicate listing. This building is listed as Equinix: MT2.
10.87 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.
11.87 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.
12.34 miles Vantage: QC43
QC43 is the third and newest data centre building on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus in Pointe-Claire. Vantage built the 94,000 sq ft building as part of a CA$900 million Canadian expansion announced in March 2022. It came online at the end of 2022.
12.37 miles Vantage: QC42
QC42 is a data centre building on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire. Hypertec built it as YUL01B. Vantage acquired it with Hypertec's hyperscale business in November 2020.
12.38 miles Vantage: QC41
QC41 is one of three data centre buildings on Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire, near Montréal-Trudeau airport. Hypertec built it as part of its YUL01 campus, and Vantage acquired Hypertec's hyperscale data centre business in November 2020. The 10-acre campus totals about 320,000 gross sq ft.
12.40 miles Hive DC: Montreal 1
Hive Data Center's MTL-1 is reseller colocation space inside Vantage's Montreal II (QC4) campus at 2800 route Transcanadienne in Pointe-Claire. The campus is fed by a dedicated 120 kV substation. Hive Data Center is not related to HIVE Digital Technologies.
12.57 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
13.48 miles Lumen: Lachine
Lumen's Lachine facility is a single-storey, 10,240 sq ft colocation and network gateway site at 4825 rue François-Cusson in Montreal's Lachine borough. Level 3 Communications built it in 2000. It is now part of Lumen Technologies' colocation network.
13.48 miles Cologix MTL8-S (Technoparc)
Cologix MTL8 is a purpose-built, two-storey data centre of about 206,000 sq ft at 7350 rue Frederick-Banting in Technoparc Montréal, Saint-Laurent. Cologix broke ground in May 2023 under its ScaleLogix hyperscale brand and brought the building into service in 2025. It earned LEED Gold certification in November 2025.
13.78 miles Cologix MTL6
Cologix MTL6 is a 10,000 sq ft colocation facility at 2341 boulevard Alfred-Nobel in Saint-Laurent, in a building constructed for Nortel. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL5 occupies the neighbouring building at 2351 Alfred-Nobel.
13.79 miles Cologix MTL5
Cologix MTL5 is a colocation suite of about 5,000 sq ft in the former Nortel building at 2351 boulevard Alfred-Nobel in Saint-Laurent. Canix Colo ran the suite before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL6 sits next door at 2341 Alfred-Nobel.
13.87 miles TNW Montréal
TNW Networks (téliPhone) operates a small colocation facility at 1375 route Transcanadienne in Dorval, in Montreal's West Island. The facility sits in a six-storey, multi-tenant office building completed in 1991.
14.04 miles Hive DC: Montreal 2
Hive Data Center's MTL-2 is reseller colocation space inside Vantage's Montreal I data centre at 2900 avenue Marie-Curie in Saint-Laurent. Hive Data Center is a Pointe-Claire colocation provider that resells space in Vantage buildings. It is not related to HIVE Digital Technologies.
14.04 miles Vantage Montreal
Vantage Montreal I is a three-storey data centre on a 5-acre campus at 2900 avenue Marie-Curie in Saint-Laurent. Vidéotron opened it in September 2016 as 4Degrés Montréal, and Vantage bought it in January 2019 and added a new wing. It offers 60,000 sq ft of data centre space and holds Uptime Institute Tier III certification.
14.43 miles Equinix Montreal MT1
Equinix MT1 is a three-storey colocation data centre with about 62,900 sq ft of colocation space at 6205 rue Vanden-Abeele in Saint-Laurent. The site began as Hypertec's hosting rooms, became Bell's Montreal data centre in 2010, and passed to Equinix with 12 other Bell sites in October 2020. Equinix bought the building in 2023 and is adding new phases through 2026.
15.17 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.
16.36 miles Leaseweb: MTL-02
Leaseweb MTL-02 is Leaseweb's Montreal flagship data centre, a Tier III facility at 7207 boulevard Newman in LaSalle. iWeb opened it in 2011 in a 31,000 sq ft building from 1973, and Leaseweb acquired iWeb in August 2021. It offers 12,000 sq ft of hosting space with 8,700 sq ft of raised floor.
16.41 miles eStruxture Montréal MTL2
eStruxture MTL-2 is a data centre in the former Montreal Gazette printing plant at 7001 rue Saint-Jacques, about 10 km from downtown Montreal. eStruxture bought the building in December 2017 and converted it into more than 187,000 sq ft of colocation space. A second data centre at the rear of the building followed from 2023.
16.69 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us Data center facility details are available on request.Interested in this information?Contact us
17.89 miles Cronomagic
Cronomagic is an IT services company in Mont-Royal that sells managed colocation. Its address at 3333 boulevard Graham, suite 700, is an office suite. Its team works with third-party data centres.
18.70 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.

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OVH is a French cloud computing company that offers VPS, dedicated servers and other web services. The company was founded in 1999 by the Klaba family and is headquartered in Roubaix, France.

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