Rogers: Calgary NIDC

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Rogers: Calgary NIDC

Year Built: 2010
Utility Provider: ENMAX
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Site History

  • 2008-2010: Shaw adds to the building.
  • 2013-2015: Backup generators are added.
  • 2023: Rogers takes over the site through its merger with Shaw, and the cooling is upgraded.

Project Profile

  • Operator: Rogers Communications
  • Use: internal network data centre
  • Status: Operational

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Sites within 15 miles of Rogers: Calgary NIDC

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0.64 miles Rogers: Calgary Shaw Data Centre
Rogers runs an internal network data centre on the former Shaw campus in northeast Calgary. Shaw built the purpose-built data centre building between 2011 and 2015, and it passed to Rogers with the 2023 Shaw merger.
0.96 miles Arrow: Calgary DC2
Arrow Datacenters' DC2 is a carrier-neutral colocation data centre in northeast Calgary and the city's busiest peering point. It links to Arrow's downtown interconnection suite in the 840 7th Avenue SW carrier hotel.
1.62 miles Qu DC: Calgary 1
Qu Data Centres' CGY1 is a colocation data centre in the Franklin Atrium building in northeast Calgary. It was one of nine Rogers data centres sold to InfraRed Capital Partners in 2025.
1.69 miles Rogers Calgary DC1
The CGY1 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
1.96 miles Equinix Calgary CL2
The site was formerly known as "Q9 Calgary 2" which was acquired by Equinix in 2020 from Bell Canada.
3.05 miles Rigstar Industrial Telecom
Rigstar, now RSG Telecom, ran a small data centre on the top floor of Hanover Place in downtown Calgary. The tower was vacated and is being converted to apartments.
3.30 miles Equinix Calgary CL1
Located in Bankers Hall in Calgary's financial district, Equinix CL1 has about 12,900 sq ft of colocation space.
3.40 miles Hosted in Canada - Calgary Watermark
HostedInCanada ran a small hosting room in Watermark Tower in downtown Calgary until 2018-2019, when it moved its Calgary data centre to 335 8th Avenue SW.
3.41 miles TNW Watermark Tower
TNW Networks (téliPhone) ran a small colocation room in Watermark Tower, a 27-storey office building in downtown Calgary. The room opened in 1999 and has since closed.
3.60 miles DataHiveTwo
DataHive's second downtown Calgary data centre, DataHiveTwo, opened in 2024 on the fourth floor of the Nexen Building at 801 Seventh. The facility spans roughly 9,000 sq ft (836 sqm).
3.61 miles Cologix: Calgary CGY1
US data center firm Cologix acquired this data center from local operator DataHive in 2025. The data center sits within a 21-storey office building built in 1979.
3.88 miles Nucleus Calgary
Nucleus Information Service, Calgary's first internet provider, ran a small server room at its downtown Calgary office. Fibernetics bought Nucleus in 2014, and the Calgary office has since closed.
4.18 miles Rogers Calgary DC2
The CGY2 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
4.19 miles Qu DC: CGY2
Qu Data Centres' CGY2 is a downtown-edge colocation data centre in Calgary's Beltline. It was one of nine Rogers data centres sold to InfraRed Capital Partners in 2025.
4.32 miles TELUS: Calgary IDC
TELUS's Calgary Internet Data Centre occupies a four-storey building in the Sunalta district, just west of downtown Calgary. TELUS opened it in 2001 and has upgraded its power and cooling several times since.
6.28 miles eStruxture Calgary CAL-1
eStruxture's first Calgary data centre, in an industrial building in southeast Calgary. Shaw Communications built it in 2015, and eStruxture bought it in 2019 and has expanded it in phases.
7.31 miles Equinix Calgary CL3
The site was formerly known as "Q9 Calgary 3" which was acquired by Equinix in 2020 from Bell Canada.
7.31 miles Denvr: Calgary CL3
Denvr Dataworks, a Calgary-based AI cloud provider, runs a prefabricated GPU module at Equinix's CL3 data centre in southeast Calgary.
9.27 miles eStruxture CAL-2
In 2021, eStruxture announced plans for a second data center in Calgary, Canada that came online in 2023. The new Cal-2 facility spans 93,000 sq ft (8,640 sqm) and has been built to Tier III standards.
10.14 miles Beacon Chestermere AI Hub
Beacon AI Centers is planning to build a new data center campus known as the Chestermere Artificial Intelligence Hub.
10.15 miles CoreWeave: Calgary CAL-3
CoreWeave is the anchor tenant of the first phase of eStruxture's CAL-3 data centre in Rocky View County, just north of Calgary.
10.15 miles eStruxture: CAL-3
Canadian data center operator eStruxture plans to invest more than CA$750 million (US$540.2m) to build CAL-3, a new data center in Calgary, Alberta.
10.51 miles Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Proposed data centre park on the east edge of Chestermere, just east of Calgary.
12.77 miles Beacon: Indus Data Centre Hub
Beacon Data Centers plans the Indus Data Centre Hub, a 946-acre AI data centre campus near Indus, just east of Calgary, with its own gas-fired power plant.
13.33 miles Rocky View Technology Park
The proposed Rocky View Technology Park, a large data center and power plant campus near Calgary, was rejected by Rocky View County councillors in September 2025.
15.49 miles Hub OneInterested in this information?Contact us
Plexus Technology runs a container bitcoin mining site powered by natural gas generators near Langdon in Rocky View County, Alberta.
15.59 miles STACK: Calgary CAL01
STACK Infrastructure's CAL01 is a build-to-suit data centre in Airdrie, just north of Calgary, leased to a single hyperscale tenant.
15.59 miles Core CampusInterested in this information?Contact us
Amazon Web Services leases all of STACK Infrastructure's CAL01 building in Airdrie for its Canada West (Calgary) cloud region, which launched in December 2023.
15.72 miles Qu DC: CGY3
Qu Data Centres' CGY3 in Airdrie is the company's flagship Alberta data centre and the province's first Uptime Tier III certified facility. Rogers opened it in 2014, and it was sold with eight other Rogers data centres to InfraRed Capital Partners in 2025.
15.73 miles Rogers Calgary DC3 Airdrie
The CGY3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
16.09 miles Wild Rose Power Hub
The Wild Rose Power Hub is a large-scale, $10 billion "gigawatt-scale" data center and power generation project located in Rocky View County.

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Rogers Communications Inc. is a Canadian communications and media company. It operates particularly in the field of wireless communications, cable television, telephone, and Internet connectivity with significant additional telecommunications and mass media assets. The company is headquartered in Toronto. (Source: Wikipedia)

Data Centre History

  • Sept 2013 Rogers acquired Pivot data centers for $155 million. Pivot operated three colocation facilities in Calgary and Edmonton, with capacity of more than 130,000 sq ft
  • Sept 2013: Acquired Granite Networks for $6.25. Granite provided managed services in Eastern Ontario and Western Quebec
  • April 2013 Rogers acquired Blackiron data centers from Primus
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