Vancouver Spencer Building

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Vancouver Spencer Building

Site was first built in 2024 and has expansions through 2027

Utility Provider: BC Hydro

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Vancouver's established carrier hotel, operating for roughly 25 years. Two buildings sit on one downtown block owned by the same landlord: the 28-storey Harbour Centre tower at 555 W Hastings and the 9-storey heritage Spencer Building at 515 W Hastings.

Two distinct businesses in the complex

A legacy colocation and interconnection business: legacy meet-me rooms in the tower, plus a new meet-me room and a small colocation room in the Spencer Building
A 2.35 MW powered shell on the 6th floor of the Spencer Building, with entirely separate and dedicated infrastructure

Power

Whole data business runs at roughly 13 MW, with a path to 20-22 MW longer term
Existing vault carries about 5 MW; roughly half is used by existing data-center clients
The utility is converting the service from 12.5 to 25 kV, and the existing vault migrates to a new vault built three years ago
The shell's Phase 1 draws 4 MW acquired separately; Phase 2's 4 MW is already under contract

Tenants and connectivity

About 50,000 sq ft of tenants, including significant colocation and government research
Cologix and eStruxture are the two largest tenants, taking suites across several floors of the tower and reselling colocation
All four Canadian national carriers in-building: Bell, Telus, Rogers and Zayo

Structure

Rack density assessed up to 132 kW
Floor loading up to 4,000 lbs/sq ft in the heritage building, materially better than the tower
Distribution runs in a 32-inch vertical riser converted from an elevator shaft

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Sites within 15 miles of Vancouver Spencer Building

Distance	Site	About
0.02 miles	Cologix VAN5	Cologix VAN5 occupies two suites in Harbour Centre, Vancouver's primary carrier hotel, and was formerly Cyxtera's YVR1.
0.02 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.
0.02 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.
0.15 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.
0.15 miles	TNW Vancouver Granville Square
0.25 miles	Hut 8: Vancouver Vault DC	The Hut 8 Vancouver Vault is a Tier 1 data center facility located in downtown Vancouver.
0.27 miles	TNW Vancouver Waterfront Centre
0.27 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.
0.31 miles	Rogers Vancouver VAN DC1
0.31 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.
0.31 miles	Ntirety Vancouver	Former Hostway hosting site at 550 Burrard Street in downtown Vancouver, later carried under the Ntirety brand.
0.39 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.
0.43 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.
1.10 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.
1.16 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.
1.31 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.
1.39 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.
1.40 miles	eStruxture Vancouver VAN1	Formerly known as the Backbone Data Vault, eStruxture acquired the site in 2018.
4.03 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.
4.06 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.
4.08 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.
4.84 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.
5.57 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.
6.13 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.
9.20 miles	SFU: Water Tower Building	Simon Fraser University's Water Tower Building data centre on Burnaby Mountain hosts Fir, the national research supercomputer that replaced Cedar in 2025.
12.58 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.

Operating Company

Privately held landlord operating Vancouver's established carrier hotel for roughly 25 years. Owns the whole 500 block of West Hastings Street downtown: the 28-storey Harbour Centre tower at 555 W Hastings and the 9-storey heritage Spencer Building at 515 W Hastings.

The data business runs at roughly 13 MW today, with 5 MW locked with BC Hydro and plans for a further 5 to 8 MW. A 2.35 MW powered shell sits on the 6th floor of the Spencer Building, with a new meet-me room one floor below.

Cologix and eStruxture are the two largest tenants in the tower. Parent entity is Polaris Realty (Canada) Limited, with a Montreal head office.

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