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SmartDC: Montreal

Year Built: 2019
Utility Provider: Hydro-Québec
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Site History

  • November 2023: SmartDC announced it had taken over the previously internal Ubisoft data centre.

Project Profile

  • Operator: SmartDC (i3D.net, Ubisoft group)
  • Space: two data halls
  • Design: Tier III; A+B power feeds; cold-aisle containment
  • Connectivity: carrier-neutral, five carriers
  • Status: Operational

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4101 rue Molson ( 2e étage, local 200 )
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2.18 miles Kyndryl: Montreal
Kyndryl operates the former IBM data centre at 275 avenue Viger Est in downtown Montreal, a five-storey, 199,000 sq ft building on 1.4 acres. IBM opened a computer room here in 2000 and added a new data centre floor in 2010. BentallGreenOak bought the building from IBM in August 2021, and Kyndryl took over IBM's infrastructure services business that November.
2.29 miles Beanfield Montreal (Openface)
Beanfield's Montreal data centre is a colocation facility at 3445 avenue du Parc, near downtown Montreal. Openface ran it as Openface DC2 until Beanfield Metroconnect acquired Openface in February 2020. The site has two meet-me rooms.
2.30 miles CGI: Dickson
CGI's Dickson Data Center is a single-storey, 34,550 sq ft data centre at 3200 rue Dickson in Montreal's Mercier district. The 1988 building was the Desjardins group's computer centre before CGI took it over. The facility holds an Uptime Institute Tier III design certification.
2.71 miles Cologix MTL1
Cologix MTL1 is a colocation suite of about 5,000 sq ft in a 16-storey office tower at 625 boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest in downtown Montreal. Canix Colo ran the suite and merged into Cologix in 2011. It is one of 12 Cologix data centres in Montreal.
2.72 miles Cologix MTL7
Cologix MTL7 is a 26,000 sq ft colocation facility at 1155 boulevard Robert-Bourassa in downtown Montreal. Cologix built it as its seventh Montreal data centre, opening the first phase in January 2014. It expanded the facility in 2019.
2.72 miles eStruxture MTL-5
eStruxture MTL-5 is a colocation suite at 1080 côte du Beaver Hall, Suite 1512, in a downtown Montreal office tower. It was Aptum's Montreal suite, MTL1, before eStruxture acquired Aptum's Canadian data centres in April 2021. Eleven carriers serve the suite.
2.75 miles Chip: Montreal
CHIP Datacentres plans a data centre in Montreal, Quebec. CHIP operates colocation data centres in Waterloo and Kitchener, Ontario, and in Ohio and Texas.
2.75 miles PlusInterested in this information?Contact us
HIVE Digital Technologies runs a hosted GPU cluster for its BUZZ HPC cloud in a rented third-party Tier III data centre in Montreal. The deployment serves HPC and AI workloads only. It is separate from HIVE's Lachute mining site.
2.83 miles eStruxture Montreal MTL1
eStruxture MTL-1 is a downtown Montreal colocation facility of more than 25,000 sq ft in the basement of the Tour de la Bourse at 800 rue du Square-Victoria. Netelligent opened it in 2013, and eStruxture acquired Netelligent in 2017. More than 20 carriers serve the site.
2.96 miles Cologix MTL11
Cologix MTL11 is a carrier hotel facility at 875 rue Saint-Antoine Ouest in downtown Montreal, in a former 360networks telecom building. I.C.E Data Centers opened the 25,000 sq ft data centre there, and Cologix acquired its sister company Metro Optic in February 2019. It is Cologix's second Montreal carrier hotel.
3.07 miles Cologix MTL3
Cologix MTL3 is the carrier hotel at 1250 boulevard René-Lévesque Ouest, a 47-storey office tower in downtown Montreal. Canix Colo developed the 33,000 sq ft facility and merged into Cologix in 2011. It is one of two carrier hotels in Cologix's Montreal portfolio, with MTL11.
3.07 miles Urbacon Montreal - 544 Inspecteur
Urbacon's Montreal data centre is a 10-storey, 266,671 sq ft purpose-built wholesale facility at 544 rue de l'Inspecteur in Griffintown, about 800 metres from the downtown financial core. Urbacon and the Fonds immobilier de solidarité FTQ developed it on a 1920 building, adding storeys above the original structure. It opened officially in September 2017 with seven dedicated data floors.
3.34 miles Education Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
The McGill-Calcul Québec national data centre occupies Pavillon D of the École de technologie supérieure (ÉTS) at 1219 rue William in Montreal. Education Operator designed and built it, and Calcul Québec operates it as one of five national hosting sites for Canada's academic research computing. It houses the Narval and Rorqual supercomputers.
3.66 miles Crypto Mining Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Crypto Miner Hosting Operator fitted out a computing facility in a large industrial complex at 1750 rue des Futailles in Montreal's Mercier district in 2018. Crypto Miner Hosting Operator is a bitcoin infrastructure company that runs mining and hosting operations in North America.
3.96 miles Cologix MTL4
Cologix MTL4 is a 12,000 sq ft colocation facility at 7171 rue Jean-Talon Est in Montreal's Anjou borough, in the east of the island. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix renovated it again in 2013 and 2014.
4.11 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.
4.48 miles Leaseweb: MTL-03
Leaseweb MTL-03 was a data centre at 5945 boulevard Couture in Montreal's Saint-Léonard borough. iWeb bought and converted the 1976 building in 2006, and the site passed to INAP and then Leaseweb. Leaseweb took it out of its data centre portfolio in spring 2026.
4.64 miles Cologix MTL10-S
Cologix MTL10 is a data centre of more than 180,000 sq ft at 530 rue Bériault in Longueuil, on Montreal's South Shore, less than 10 km from downtown. Colo-D opened it as Colo-D2 in 2016, and Cologix acquired Colo-D in December 2018. Cologix expanded the site into an adjacent building in 2019 and holds land next door for more data halls.
5.19 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.
5.26 miles Leaseweb: MTL-01
Leaseweb MTL-01 is a Tier III data centre with 13,200 sq ft of colocation space at 20 place du Commerce on Nuns' Island, Montreal. Laurentian Bank built it in 1998, and iWeb moved in in May 2008. INAP bought iWeb in 2013, and Leaseweb acquired iWeb in August 2021.
5.30 miles Cologix MTL2
Cologix MTL2 is a 12,000 sq ft colocation facility on Nuns' Island (Île des Sœurs) in Montreal's Verdun borough. Canix Colo ran the site before merging into Cologix in 2011. Cologix MTL12 occupies an adjacent suite in the same building.
5.31 miles Cologix MTL12
Cologix MTL12 is an 8,500 sq ft colocation suite at 3000 boulevard René-Lévesque on Nuns' Island, next to Cologix MTL2 in the same building. It was a CenturyLink facility before Cyxtera ran it as YUL1 from 2017. Cologix bought it in December 2023.
6.65 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.
6.66 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Hypertec is developing a new campus at 7000 rue Saint-Patrick in Montreal's LaSalle borough, on former city land. In September 2025, Hypertec, Mila and 5C announced a CA$250 million Sovereign AI Research Hub at Hypertec's LaSalle campus. The hub will provide secure GPU compute for AI research.
6.92 miles eStruxture Montreal MTL3
eStruxture MTL-3 is a colocation facility at 1350 rue Nobel in Boucherville, on Montreal's South Shore. Kolotek opened it in 2009 as Kolotek Boucherville, and eStruxture acquired it in February 2018. eStruxture bills it as the first Tier III certified facility in Quebec.
7.26 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.
8.06 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.
9.33 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.
9.47 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.
9.60 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Vantage holds about 1 million sq ft (23 acres) of land on rue Marie-Victorin in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, on Montreal's South Shore, for a planned CA$1.2 billion campus of four two-storey data centres. Vantage bought the land in February 2019, but Quebec refused the project's power request in October 2023. Vantage still owns the site, and the town council backed the project again in December 2025.
10.00 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.
10.02 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.
10.24 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.
10.27 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.
10.46 miles Hyperscale Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Amazon Web Services' second Varennes data centre stands next to YUL55 at 1670 boulevard Lionel-Boulet, on Montreal's South Shore. The single-storey building was completed in 2023. By February 2025, Amazon had two data centre buildings on the Varennes campus.
10.52 miles Central CampusInterested in this information?Contact us
Amazon Web Services' YUL55 data centre is a 155,000 sq ft building at 1660 boulevard Lionel-Boulet in Varennes, on Montreal's South Shore. Montoni developed it for AWS in 2018 on an 11.8-acre site next to the IREQ research campus. It serves AWS's Canada (Central) region, ca-central-1.
10.62 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.
10.68 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.
10.91 miles Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)
Colo-D announced D3, a third Quebec campus on more than 22 acres in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, in October 2018. Cologix acquired Colo-D two months later. The campus was never built.
10.97 miles Carrier-Neutral Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
Carrier-Neutral Data Center' data centre in the Mohawk Territory of Kahnawà:ke, south of Montreal, hosts the online gaming operators licensed by the Kahnawà:ke Gaming Commission. Carrier-Neutral Operator manages the facility, which has operated since 1999. Private fibre links it to two Montreal locations.
12.27 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.
12.28 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.
12.30 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.
12.32 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.
13.34 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.
14.14 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.
16.16 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.
18.34 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.
18.77 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.

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