SaskTel: Saskatoon North Data Center

Site History

October 2015: SaskTel announced the facility; Graham Construction began work.

November 2015: Uptime Institute Tier III design certification.

December 21, 2016: Uptime Institute Tier III Constructed Facility certification.

January 26, 2017: Facility declared operational.

March 2017: Federated Co-operatives Ltd. signed on as anchor tenant.

Project Profile

Operator: SaskTel

Building: 24,000 sq ft, plus 4,630 sq ft of second-floor generator rooms

Data hall: 9,650 sq ft, designed to expand to 30,000 sq ft

Generators: 2 x 2.5 MW, N+1, with 3 days of on-site fuel

Cooling: 340 tons, N+1

Fire suppression: double-interlock pre-action

Racks: 45U and 52U; slab floor; 10 ft clear height

Services: colocation, managed hosting, disaster recovery

Certifications: Uptime Tier III (design and constructed facility); SOC 2 Type 2

SLA: 99.999% uptime

Distance	Site	About
3.76 miles	MSP Corp: Saskatoon	Carrier-neutral colocation run by MSP Corp's Prairies region (formerly VDC Virtual Data Corp) at 121 Research Drive in Saskatoon's Innovation Saskatchewan R+T Park. The building also hosts the YXEIX internet exchange switches.
4.43 miles	SaskTel: Saskatoon Central	SaskTel's Tier II-design colocation data centre inside its Saskatoon main exchange building at 140 1st Avenue North, downtown. It opened in 2014 with a meet-me room and two fibre entrances.

Distance

Site

About

3.76 miles

MSP Corp: Saskatoon

Carrier-neutral colocation run by MSP Corp's Prairies region (formerly VDC Virtual Data Corp) at 121 Research Drive in Saskatoon's Innovation Saskatchewan R+T Park. The building also hosts the YXEIX internet exchange switches.

4.43 miles

SaskTel: Saskatoon Central

SaskTel's Tier II-design colocation data centre inside its Saskatoon main exchange building at 140 1st Avenue North, downtown. It opened in 2014 with a meet-me room and two fibre entrances.