Telehouse: 250 Front Street West

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Telehouse: 250 Front Street West

Year Built: 2015

PUE: 1.3

Utility Provider: Toronto Hydro

Floors: 13

Ownership: Telehouse leasehold the building.

Sites leasing space from Telehouse:

Beanfield 250 Front St

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Telehouse Canada operates three data centres in downtown Toronto, connected by a dark fibre network to more than 200 carriers, ISPs and cloud providers. 250 Front Street West offers colocation and cloud-hosting space, with direct dark fibre to the 151 Front Street West and 905 King Street West facilities.

Site History

1992: The Canadian Broadcasting Centre opened at 250 Front Street West.
2013-2018: Allied Properties REIT built data centre space in the building, which it held on a long-term leasehold.
August 2023: KDDI's Telehouse closed its CA$1.35 billion purchase of Allied's urban data centre portfolio, which included the leasehold interest in 250 Front Street West.

Project Profile

About 82,000 sq ft of IT space
Tier III design
Meet-me rooms with access to the building's carriers and internet exchanges

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Sites within 15 miles of Telehouse: 250 Front Street West

Distance	Site	About
0.04 miles	Beanfield 250 Front St	Beanfield colocation at 250 Front Street West in the Canadian Broadcasting Centre block of downtown Toronto, with multi-cabinet halls cooled by Enwave deep-lake water.
0.18 miles	Beanfield 151 Front St	Beanfield colocation inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, with boutique multi-cabinet halls cooled by Enwave deep-lake water.
0.18 miles	Hive DC: Toronto	Hive Data Center's highly connected TOR-1 site has extensive connectivity to Canada’s largest city and direct paths to the US Mid-west.
0.19 miles	3z Canada: 151 Front
0.20 miles	Neutral Data Toronto
0.20 miles	Cologix Toronto TOR1	Cologix operates seven discrete data centre suites at 151 Front Street West (TOR1), Canada's largest carrier hotel.
0.20 miles	Equinix Toronto TR1	Equinix's facilities in Toronto has a long history that includes several acquisitions. The original suites now operated by Equinix at 151 Front Street began with RACO, a Canadian company that Switch and Data acquired in 2004.
0.20 miles	Amanah: TOR1	Located on the 3rd floor, TOR 1 is Amanah's primary data center suite.
0.20 miles	Priority Colo TOR1
0.20 miles	Digital Realty 151 Front
0.20 miles	eStruxture TOR-1	eStruxture's TOR-1 colocation suites inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, spread across four data halls on three floors.
0.20 miles	Coloware: YTZ-1	Coloware's YTZ-1 data centre inside the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel in downtown Toronto, opened in 2020 and expanded in 2024.
0.21 miles	Amanah: TOR2	Situated on the 6th floor of the same building, TOR 2 serves as a high-availability extension of TOR 1.
0.22 miles	Telehouse: 151 Front Street West	Telehouse Canada's flagship carrier hotel at 151 Front Street West, beside Union Station in downtown Toronto. It is home to the Toronto Internet Exchange and to suites run by many colocation and network operators.
0.27 miles	eStruxture TOR-2	eStruxture's TOR-2 data centre on the eighth floor of 145 King Street West in Toronto's financial district, formerly Cogeco Peer 1 King Street.
0.30 miles	CentriLogic Toronto	CentriLogic's downtown Toronto data centre in Suite 300 at 55 York Street, a 16,000 sq ft managed services and colocation facility.
0.32 miles	Equinix Toronto TR4	The site was formerly known as "Q9 Toronto 2, 3, and 4" which were acquired by Equinix from Bell Canada in 2020.
0.50 miles	TNW Toronto
0.64 miles	Qscale: Toronto	Qscale, a Canadian company, plans to build a multi-billion-dollar data center in Toronto.
1.22 miles	Cologix TOR3	Cologix's TOR3 data centre inside 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, with diverse fibre to Cologix TOR1 at the 151 Front Street West carrier hotel.
1.22 miles	Cologix Toronto TOR2	Cologix’s second Toronto data centre site at 905 King Street (TOR 2) was built using standards for concurrent maintainability for space, power, mechanical systems and security. The TOR 2 data centre can be utilized as a stand-alone, diverse bypass facility to Cologix's TOR 1 data centre at 151 Front Street.
1.22 miles	Contegix Toronto
1.22 miles	Beanfield 905 King St	Beanfield colocation suite inside 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, on Beanfield's own fibre network.
1.23 miles	Telehouse: 905 King Street West	Telehouse Canada data centre at 905 King Street West in Toronto's Liberty Village, linked by dark fibre to the 151 and 250 Front Street West carrier hotels.
1.38 miles	Urbacon Toronto - 281 Front Street	At the intersection of Front Street East and Parliament Street, 281 Front is less than one and a half kilometres from Canada’s financial heart, and directly abutting 151 Front Street, which is Toronto's carrier hotel.
1.39 miles	Equinix Toronto TR2	TR2 is also known as Parliament Street Data Centre TR2 has metro connections to TR1, which is home to one of Canada's largest financial trading ecosystems. TR2 hosts Internet Exchange, Ethernet Exchange and Equinix Cloud Exchange™ connectivity to TR1.
1.86 miles	Beanfield 23 Fraser	Beanfield's ground-level colocation facility at 23 Fraser Avenue in Toronto's Liberty Village, with its own generator, dual UPS and direct access to Beanfield's fibre network.
4.38 miles	TELUS: Toronto Laird	TELUS's Toronto Intelligent Internet Data Centre at 73 Laird Drive in East York, a former PSINet facility. The City of Toronto has leased data centre space there since 2007.
4.92 miles	Beeches Development: East York, ON	Toronto-based Beeches Development Inc. has proposed a new data center in the Leaside business park, marking the third iteration of plans for the site at 154-156 Wicksteed Avenue.
6.31 miles	Lumen Toronto 1
6.74 miles	Whipcord Edge: TDC01
6.74 miles	Whipcord Edge: Toronto TDC01
7.02 miles	Stack: TOR01C	TOR01C is a proposed 212,000 sq ft building, the third phase of Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto.
7.09 miles	Stack: TOR01B	TOR01B is a proposed 217,000 sq ft building on Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto, in site plan review.
7.10 miles	Stack: TOR01A	TOR01A is the first building on Stack Infrastructure's TOR01 campus in Scarborough, Toronto. Developer First Gulf partnered with STACK to renovate the existing 89,000 sq ft building, delivered in September 2023.
7.65 miles	Centersquare: Etobicoke YYZ3	Centersquare's Toronto YYZ3 facility at 75-77 Fima Crescent, Etobicoke, a ~214,000 sq ft retrofit data center that Centersquare owns. It joined the portfolio in Centersquare's October 2025 ten-facility North American acquisition.
8.02 miles	eStruxture TOR-3 (Etobicoke)	eStruxture's TOR-3 data centre at 431 Horner Avenue in Etobicoke, west Toronto, with three data halls and natural gas and diesel backup generation.
8.26 miles	ILAP 210 Sheppard
8.68 miles	3z Canada: Etobicoke
9.07 miles	ServerFarm Toronto TOR1	Site is approximately 7.14 acres Three 10,000 SF data halls with ample office and conference space
9.09 miles	Cogent: Toronto
9.10 miles	Core RidgeInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft is building a new data center on the site of a now-closed Lowe’s store between Islington Avenue and Highway 401 in Toronto, Canada.
9.75 miles	Canada Cloud Data Centre
10.25 miles	Cogent Mississauga
10.26 miles	UltraInterested in this information?Contact us	HIVE Digital's owned data centre at 15 City View Drive in Etobicoke, near Toronto Pearson Airport. It mines bitcoin today, and HIVE's BUZZ HPC unit plans a Tier III upgrade for AI workloads.
10.77 miles	Compass: North York	Compass Datacenters' Toronto data centre at 15 Fenmar Drive in North York, a two-storey building completed in 2023 for a single hyperscale tenant.
11.04 miles	Hut 8: Mississauga 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.
11.61 miles	Edgeconnex Toronto	EdgeConneX's Toronto edge data centre at 565 Gordon Baker Road in North York, a 38,900 sq ft facility opened in 2018.
11.87 miles	Yondr: Toronto TOR1	The three-story facility, being built on a 4.5-acre plot, will feature closed-loop cooling technology. The project is expected to be ready for service by mid-2026.
12.02 miles	1 Century Place (TOR1) Digital Realty	Digital Realty's TOR1 wholesale data centre at 1 Century Place in Vaughan, just north of Toronto, built inside the former Toronto Star printing plant.
12.20 miles	TMX: Markham Colocation	TMX Group's colocation data centre at 3500 Steeles Avenue East in Markham, built for trading firms connecting to the Toronto Stock Exchange.
12.25 miles	Content Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us
12.30 miles	Real Estate Data CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	Real Estate Operator is redeveloping the former IBM Canada headquarters campus at 3600 Steeles Avenue East in Markham, including a full rebuild of the campus transformer station.
12.76 miles	Hut 8: Vaughan 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.
12.87 miles	Nüday Networks
12.89 miles	CentriLogic Mississauga (South)
12.99 miles	Cogent: Mississauga 2
13.38 miles	Urbacon: Toronto West DC7	DC7 is situated in a prime Toronto location accessible by transit and close to Canada's largest international transportation hub.
13.76 miles	Kyndryl: Markham
13.76 miles	Campus TwoInterested in this information?Contact us	This facility will be part of the proposed Microsoft Data Centre campus, also known as the "YTO14 Data Processing Centre," in Ontario, Canada.
13.76 miles	371 Gough - Digital Realty	Digital Realty's YYZ10 data centre at 371 Gough Road in Markham, a 120,000 sq ft building fitted out in phases from 2014. Digital Core REIT owns a 90% interest.
13.81 miles	Global CenterInterested in this information?Contact us	The proposed Microsoft Data Centre campus, also known as the "YTO14 Data Processing Centre," features two distinct 3-storey buildings including administration zone.
13.83 miles	Rogers Markham TOR DC3	The TOR3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
13.84 miles	Qu DC: TOR3	The TOR3 facility (along with eight other data centers across Canada) was acquired from Rogers Communications by InfraRed Capital Partners.
13.90 miles	Centersquare: Markham YYZ2	Centersquare's YYZ2 data centre at 4175 14th Avenue in Markham, opened by CenturyLink in August 2014 as its second Toronto-area facility.
13.91 miles	Priority Colo TOR2	Priority Colo's TOR2 data centre at 600 Cochrane Drive in Markham, near Highways 404 and 7, built in 2013 for higher-density deployments.
13.93 miles	Excell IT
14.14 miles	CentriLogic Mississauga (North)	18″ raised floor with hot/cold aisle configuration 24/7/365 Security & Multi-level Biometric Access Control
14.21 miles	Equinix Markham TR5
14.25 miles	eStruxture TOR-4 Scarborough	eStruxture's TOR-4 data centre at 20 Pullman Court in north Scarborough, a purpose-built facility formerly known as Cogeco Peer 1 Pullman.
14.41 miles	CORE: Markham	Former Core Data Centres colocation operation at 105 Clegg Road in Markham. Cologix bought the building in September 2025 and runs it as Cologix TOR5.
14.41 miles	Cologix TOR5	Cologix's TOR5 data centre at 105 Clegg Road in Markham, a purpose-built 40,000 sq ft facility next to Cologix TOR4.
14.42 miles	Cologix TOR4	Cologix's TOR4 data centre in Markham, a purpose-built facility completed in October 2023, with diverse dark fibre to Cologix TOR1 at 151 Front Street West.
14.75 miles	CentriLogic: Greater Toronto, ON	CentriLogic's 28,000 sq ft purpose-built data centre at 7445 Tranmere Drive in Mississauga, opened in August 2015 in a building that earlier housed a Dell data centre.
14.76 miles	Pathway Communications
15.28 miles	Moldenhauer: Mississauga	Moldenhauer's proposed data centre campus in southwest Mississauga, near Clarkson GO station.
15.72 miles	West StationInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft's YTO11 data centre is the first building of a two-phase campus on a 28.2-acre site at 6100 Langstaff Road in Vaughan, north of Toronto.
15.77 miles	CampusInterested in this information?Contact us	Microsoft's YTO12 is the planned second phase of its Vaughan data centre campus at 6100 Langstaff Road, a three-storey building next to YTO11.
16.83 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC4	DC4 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fourth data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 203,000 sq ft building has its permit and completed civil works.
16.87 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC3	DC3 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' third data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 111,000 sq ft facility was handed over in two stages in 2023 and 2024.
17.00 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC6	DC6 is the planned sixth data centre on Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill.
17.03 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC2	DC2 is Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' second data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The 105,000 sq ft facility was completed in October 2020.
17.06 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC1	DC1 is the first data center on Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' Barker Business Park Digital Campus in Richmond Hill, Ontario. The 118,135 sq ft facility opened in 2017.
17.15 miles	Urbacon: Richmond DC5	DC5 will be Urbacon Data Centre Solutions' fifth data centre on its Barker Business Park campus in Richmond Hill. The planned 305,000 sq ft building is zoned for data centre use.
17.60 miles	11:11 Systems: Mississauga, ON	11:11 Systems acquired the facility from Sungard Availability Services (Sungard AS) in November 2022.
17.78 miles	Equinix Brampton TR6
17.86 miles	Equinix Brampton TR7	The site was formerly known as "Q9 Toronto Two" which was acquired by Equinix in 2020 from Bell Canada.
18.25 miles	3z Canada: Mississauga
18.29 miles	Ridge OneInterested in this information?Contact us	BUZZ HPC, a subsidiary of HIVE Digital Technologies, plans a sovereign AI data centre on about 25 acres at 3480 Ninth Line in Oakville, west of Toronto. The campus will connect to the Hydro One transmission grid through its own transformer station.
18.62 miles	Centersquare: Mississauga YYZ1	One story building Raised floor (inches) = 24 and 30
19.20 miles	CORE Brampton	55H, in partnership with Core Data Centers, has announced a phased expansion of its Brampton, Ontario data center. This expansion is designed to meet the growing demands of AI clients.

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The building is home to the CBC (and a data center)

250 Front Street West

Source: Baxtel

The building is home to the CBC (and a data center)

The CBC Building with the Toronto Needle in the Background

Source: Baxtel

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Telehouse is a subsidiary of KDDI Corporation. KDDI was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.

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