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Read PowerBank Partner Signs First Lease For 2MW Modular Data Center In Ontario
PowerBank Corporation's joint development partner has executed the first lease for a 2MW modular data center in Ontario, the company said in an [October 29 announcement](https://www.prnewswire.com/...

PowerBank Partner Signs First Lease For 2MW Modular Data Center In Ontario

October 30, 2026 Ontario

PowerBank Corporation's joint development partner has executed the first lease for a 2MW modular data center in Ontario, the company said in an October 29 announcement. The Toronto-based energy developer plans to lease the powered shell to an AI cloud operator that installs and runs its own GPUs,...

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Read FingerMotion, Genius Group Sign JV For 2.4MW HPC Campus In Alberta
Genius Group, [FingerMotion](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/fingermotion) and BlueFlare Energy Solutions signed [binding agreements](https://ir.geniusgroup.net/news-events/press-releases/detail/26...

FingerMotion, Genius Group Sign JV For 2.4MW HPC Campus In Alberta

October 28, 2026 Alberta

Genius Group, FingerMotion and BlueFlare Energy Solutions signed binding agreements on October 27 to form GENIUSpark Alberta Inc. and build high-performance computing campuses in Alberta, Canada. The first site, Hanna Campus No. 1, carries an estimated $24.3 million cost and 2.4 MW of computing...

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Read Uniserve Targets Q4 2026 Launch for 1MW Vancouver Data Center
[Uniserve Communications](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/uniserve-communications) will open a new Vancouver data center in the fourth quarter of 2026, starting with 1MW of capacity. The roughly 10...

Uniserve Targets Q4 2026 Launch for 1MW Vancouver Data Center

October 22, 2026 Vancouver

Uniserve Communications will open a new Vancouver data center in the fourth quarter of 2026, starting with 1MW of capacity. The roughly 10,000-square-foot VAN-2 facility at 369 Terminal Avenue sits beside the operator's existing site and will support up to 30kW per rack, Uniserve said in an...

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Read Anthropic Signs First Canada Lease at EverWind's C$10B Nova Scotia Campus
Halifax-based energy developer [EverWind](https://baxtel.com/data-centers/everwind) on Friday announced more than C$10 billion (about US$7.1 billion) in private investment for a data center campus ...

Anthropic Signs First Canada Lease at EverWind's C$10B Nova Scotia Campus

October 19, 2026 EverWind: Point Tupper Phase 1

Halifax-based energy developer EverWind on Friday announced more than C$10 billion (about US$7.1 billion) in private investment for a data center campus at its Point Tupper industrial site in Richmond County, Nova Scotia, and Anthropic confirmed it signed a long-term lease for the first phase,...

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Read Nova Scotia Green Fuels Plant Could Be Redeveloped for Data Centers
Green hydrogen and ammonia producer EverWind Fuels is exploring plans to add data centers at its industrial site in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company confirmed to CBC that its long-ter...

Nova Scotia Green Fuels Plant Could Be Redeveloped for Data Centers

October 06, 2026 EverWind: Point Tupper Phase 1

Green hydrogen and ammonia producer EverWind Fuels is exploring plans to add data centers at its industrial site in Point Tupper, Nova Scotia, Canada. The company confirmed to CBC that its long-term plans could include data center development at the site, near Port Hawkesbury. EverWind...

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Read Bell Canada To Quadruple Capacity At Planned Saskatchewan Data Center Campus
Bell plans to expand its Saskatchewan AI data center campus by up to 900MW, with potential to reach 1.2GW. The project could attract more than $50 billion in total investment and will use natural g...

Bell Canada To Quadruple Capacity At Planned Saskatchewan Data Center Campus

September 15, 2026 Canada

Bell plans to expand its Saskatchewan AI data center campus by up to 900MW, with potential to reach 1.2GW. The project could attract more than $50 billion in total investment and will use natural gas power generation and closed-loop cooling that does not require municipal water. Development will...

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Read Landlord Sells eStruxture-Occupied Data Center In Toronto, Canada
A data center leased by colocation provider eStruxture in Toronto, Canada, has been sold by its landlord. Granite REIT sold the 41,200 sq ft (3,825 sqm) property at 20 Pullman Court in Scarborough ...

Landlord Sells eStruxture-Occupied Data Center In Toronto, Canada

August 19, 2026 Canada

A data center leased by colocation provider eStruxture in Toronto, Canada, has been sold by its landlord. Granite REIT sold the 41,200 sq ft (3,825 sqm) property at 20 Pullman Court in Scarborough for CA$16.5m ($11.89m). The deal closed last month, though the buyer was not disclosed. A Toronto...

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Read Canadian Developer Proposes 25-acre Data Center in Fergus, Ontario
Canadian developer Spur Innovation is planning a 50–75MW data center on a 25-acre site in Fergus, Ontario.According to an AI-generated factsheet attached to a report by the Wellington Advertiser, t...

Canadian Developer Proposes 25-acre Data Center in Fergus, Ontario

July 04, 2026 Ontario

Canadian developer Spur Innovation is planning a 50–75MW data center on a 25-acre site in Fergus, Ontario.According to an AI-generated factsheet attached to a report by the Wellington Advertiser, the proposal also includes a vertical farm and greenhouse complex at 865 Gartshore Street. The data...

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Read Developer Withdraws Proposed Data Center Outside Calgary, Canada
A proposed data center outside Calgary, Canada, has been withdrawn by its developer. Kalina Distributed Power, a subsidiary of Australia’s Kalina Power, pulled its plan for the Lone Pine Energy Cen...

Developer Withdraws Proposed Data Center Outside Calgary, Canada

July 02, 2026 Canada

A proposed data center outside Calgary, Canada, has been withdrawn by its developer. Kalina Distributed Power, a subsidiary of Australia’s Kalina Power, pulled its plan for the Lone Pine Energy Centre near Airdrie, which included a data center and 200MW gas-fired power plant. The company cited...

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Read CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3
CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

CoreWeave Anchors Phase 1 of eStruxture's 90 MW Calgary CAL-3

May 17, 2026 eStruxture: CAL-3

eStruxture has signed CoreWeave as the anchor tenant for Phase 1 of CAL-3, its 90 MW AI-ready data center in Rocky View County just outside Calgary, eStruxture announced on May 14. The Tier III facility is the largest data center under construction in Alberta and is targeted for commercial...

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Read Bell Canada Plans AI Data Center at Former Winnipeg Food Plant
Bell Canada Plans AI Data Center at Former Winnipeg Food Plant

Bell Canada Plans AI Data Center at Former Winnipeg Food Plant

April 29, 2026 Canada

Work is underway to convert a former protein-processing plant in Winnipeg, Canada, into an AI data center for Bell Canada. According to CBC, the facility will form part of Bell’s “AI Fabric” network, under which the company is developing multiple data centers across the country.The data center is...

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Read Saab Proposes Combined data Center and Fighter Jet Deal to Canada
Saab Proposes Combined data Center and Fighter Jet Deal to Canada

Saab Proposes Combined data Center and Fighter Jet Deal to Canada

April 18, 2026 Canada

Saab is offering a sovereign data center deployment to the Canadian military as part of a package tied to its fighter jet proposal. As reported by CBC News, the Swedish defense company is hoping that the inclusion of a data center—designed to keep sensitive data outside the control of US...

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Read Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta
Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta

Avax One Targets 10MW Behind-the-Meter Data Center in Alberta

April 11, 2026 Alberta

Cryptocurrency firm Avax One Technology has signed a front-end engineering and design (FEED) proposal for a 10MW off-grid, natural gas-powered AI and high-performance computing (HPC) data center at the 4-31 Battery site in Alberta, Canada. The FEED study will be led by BlueFlare Energy Solutions...

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Read Canadian Data Center Firm Virtual Grid Unveils Modular Prototype
Canadian Data Center Firm Virtual Grid Unveils Modular Prototype

Canadian Data Center Firm Virtual Grid Unveils Modular Prototype

March 16, 2026 Canada

Canadian data center company Virtual Grid has launched a prototype modular “compute node.” The unit is designed to function as both a virtual data center and a virtual power plant, and is set to be deployed across Western Canada, including British Columbia, Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba....

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Read Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton
Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton

Ontario Legislator Says Data Center May be Headed to Sarnia-Lambton

February 21, 2026 Ontario

A new data center could be coming to Ontario, Canada. Bob Bailey, a member of Ontario’s Provincial Parliament, said on Thursday that a data center could be coming to the southern border city of Sarnia.Bailey suggested the proposed data center would deliver at least 100MW of capacity, noting that...

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Read 1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada
1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

1GW Data Center Campus Proposed in Alberta, Canada

January 30, 2026 Canada

The town of Olds this week announced that Synapse Data Center Inc. has proposed a 1GW data center development. The campus, according to the company and filings with the Alberta government, would total ten 100MW buildings and some two million sq ft (185,805 sqm) of space.The campus could see...

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Read Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers
Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

Canada's Government Calls for Firms to Build 100MW+ AI Data Centers

January 24, 2026 Canada

Canada’s government has put out a call for businesses interested in building large-scale AI data centers as it is looking for industry partners interested in constructing data centers with a capacity of more than 100MW in Canada.Evan Solomon, Canada’s AI minister, said his government is “taking...

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Read TNE Partners with Data District to Support 1GW Data Center Pipeline in Canada
TNE Partners with Data District to Support 1GW Data Center Pipeline in Canada

TNE Partners with Data District to Support 1GW Data Center Pipeline in Canada

December 18, 2025 Canada

Technologies New Energy (TNE) has partnered with Data District to support the development of AI-ready data centers in Alberta, Canada. According to the partners, the data centers will be designed to support advanced computing workloads, including high-density AI applications.Julio Perez, chief...

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Read Jet.AI Details Plans for 350-Acre Data Center Campus in Winnipeg, Canada
Jet.AI Details Plans for 350-Acre Data Center Campus in Winnipeg, Canada

Jet.AI Details Plans for 350-Acre Data Center Campus in Winnipeg, Canada

December 10, 2025 Canada

Jet.AI Inc., a company pivoting from aviation software and services into data centers, has provided more details on a planned campus in Canada. The company last week announced that it aims to develop a 350-acre site 10 miles south of Winnipeg, Manitoba.“[The site] sits adjacent to an electrical...

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Read Alberta Gov't Proposes Bill to Incentivize Self Powered Data Center
Alberta Gov't Proposes Bill to Incentivize Self Powered Data Center

Alberta Gov't Proposes Bill to Incentivize Self Powered Data Center

December 01, 2025 Canada

The Canadian province of Alberta has proposed a new bill to incentivize the development of self-powered data centers. If passed, Bill 8, also known as the Utilities Statutes Amendment Act, 2025, would create a new framework that would allow data center developers to power their installations...

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