SFU: Water Tower Building

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SFU: Water Tower Building

Year Built: 2017
Utility Provider: BC Hydro
Ownership: Simon Fraser University owns the building.
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Site History

  • 2017: SFU completes the retrofit of the former BC Hydro control centre in the Water Tower Building as a data centre for the national Cedar supercomputer.
  • 2025-09: The Fir supercomputer enters service and replaces Cedar.

Project Profile

  • Owner: Simon Fraser University, hosting systems for the Digital Research Alliance of Canada
  • Building: Water Tower Building, Burnaby Mountain campus
  • Space: about 22,000 square feet
  • Electrical: 2.0 MVA unit substation and utility feed, two 1 MVA diesel generators
  • Cooling: direct liquid cooling for Fir

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4.39 miles eStruxture VAN-3 Burnaby
eStruxture VAN-3 is a high-density data center under construction in a converted 55,000-square-foot building on Canada Way in Burnaby, designed for liquid-cooled AI racks.
4.56 miles Canadian Web Hosting: Coquitlam
Canadian Web Hosting operates a custom-built data centre at 1478 Hartley Avenue in Coquitlam for its hosting, cloud and colocation services.
4.83 miles Equinix Vancouver VA1
Equinix VA1 is a small colocation facility in a leased two-storey building on Still Creek Drive in Burnaby, acquired with Bell Canada's data center portfolio in 2020.
5.60 miles TrueNorth: Vancouver
TrueNorth Sustainable Infrastructure is converting the east building of a former bakery complex at 3438 Lougheed Highway in East Vancouver into a high-density data centre.
5.63 miles Cologix VAN6
Cologix VAN6 is a three-storey data center under construction at 3448 Cornett Road (formerly 2772 Natal Street) in East Vancouver, next to Cologix VAN3.
5.67 miles Cologix Vancouver VAN3
Cologix VAN3 is a two-storey, purpose-built data center in East Vancouver's Renfrew-Collingwood area, opened in September 2019 in a converted industrial building.
8.42 miles Uniserve: Vancouver 2
Uniserve is fitting out an AI-focused data centre of about 10,000 square feet at 369 Terminal Avenue in Vancouver's False Creek Flats.
8.48 miles Uniserve: Vancouver 1
Uniserve operates a data centre in the Vantech Centre at 333 Terminal Avenue in Vancouver, next door to its planned AI data centre at 369 Terminal Avenue.
8.65 miles Atlas Cloud Vancouver
Atlas Cloud markets colocation from a small facility at 308 East 5th Avenue in Vancouver's Mount Pleasant neighbourhood, linked by fibre to Harbour Centre.
8.81 miles Telus: M3 Vancouver
TELUS plans a Mount Pleasant AI Factory in the M3 building at 111 East 5th Avenue, a Westbank-led conversion of an existing office building that is awaiting rezoning.
8.89 miles eStruxture Vancouver VAN1
Formerly known as the Backbone Data Vault, eStruxture acquired the site in 2018.
9.06 miles Cologix VAN4
Cologix's VAN4 occupies four floors of the Unitel Building in Vancouver's Gastown, a long-standing interconnection facility that Cologix acquired from Zayo in 2021.
9.20 miles Vancouver Spencer Building
The Spencer Building Carrier Hotel in downtown Vancouver's Harbour Centre Complex provides western Canada with added connectivity and data center space.
9.21 miles Cologix VAN1
Cologix VAN1 occupies two suites in Harbour Centre, the 555 West Hastings Street tower that serves as Vancouver's primary carrier hotel.
9.21 miles eStruxture VAN2
eStruxture VAN-2 is a colocation suite on the 21st floor of Harbour Centre, Vancouver's primary carrier hotel at 555 West Hastings Street.
9.21 miles Cologix VAN5
Cologix VAN5 occupies two suites in Harbour Centre, Vancouver's primary carrier hotel, and was formerly Cyxtera's YVR1.
9.22 miles Telus: 150 West Georgia
TELUS is tied to a planned downtown Vancouver AI data center at 150 West Georgia Street. The site is a Westbank/Allied project near BC Place and is expected to use district energy integration for heat recovery.
9.25 miles TNW Vancouver Granville Square
9.37 miles PureColo Vancouver
Retail colocation facility in Vancouver, British Columbia, operated by PureColo, the operating arm of Carrier Connect Data Solutions. Capacity is sold by the cabinet.
9.37 miles TNW Vancouver Waterfront Centre
9.42 miles Hut 8: Vancouver Vault DC
The Hut 8 Vancouver Vault is a Tier 1 data center facility located in downtown Vancouver.
9.49 miles Rogers Vancouver VAN DC1
9.49 miles Hut 8: Vancouver 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.
9.50 miles Ntirety Vancouver
Former Hostway hosting site at 550 Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, later carried under the Ntirety brand.
9.56 miles Cologix VAN2
Cologix VAN2 sits a few blocks from Harbour Centre in downtown Vancouver and connects to the city's primary carrier hotel over a dark fiber ring.
15.17 miles UBC: University Data Centre
The UBC University Data Centre in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Building on UBC's Vancouver campus hosts the ARC Sockeye research cluster and departmental co-location.

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