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World Wide Technology to buy ITSP Softchoice

Canadian IT services provider Softchoice is set to be acquired by digital infrastructure provider World Wide Technology (WWT). The all-cash deal will see St. Louis-based WWT pay CA$24.50 per share to acquire Softchoice. The deal has been approved by the Softchoice board, and will now require t...

January 05, 2025

Canada

Legrand acquires Power Bus Way

Legrand has acquired Power Bus Way, a specialist in Cable Bus power busbars, primarily for data centers. The company employs more than 120 people and generates an annual revenue of around €70 million ($73.5m), mainly in the United States and Canada.Benoît Coquart, CEO of Legrand, said: "Today ...

December 06, 2024

Canada

Bell Canada to acquire Ziply Fiber for about $7bn

Bell Canada has agreed to acquire US fiber company Ziply Fiber as part of Bell's plans to expand its fiber footprint across North America and over the border into the US. Bell noted that the value of the deal is worth approximately C$5 billion ($3.6bn) in cash, plus the assumption of debt, res...

November 06, 2024

Canada

Canada announces $362m funding for SREPs

The Canadian Ministry of Energy has announced up to CAD$500 million ($362.1m) in funding for its Smart Renewables and Electrification Pathways program (SREPs) Utility Support Stream. The program received nearly CAD$2.9 billion ($2.1bn) in the Canadian government's 2023 budget to support clean ...

October 16, 2024

Canada

Telesat completes CA$2.54 billion in funding agreements

Canadian satellite firm Telesat has announced the completion of funding agreements with the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec for the Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband constellation. The satellite firm now has all financing sources in place to fund the Lightspeed network, includi...

September 18, 2024

Canada

euNetworks closes €2.1 billion equity recapitalization

Fiber firm euNetworks has closed on a €2.1 billion equity recapitalization led by a Stonepeak-managed vehicle anchored by Mercer and Aware Super. This funding received direct investments from the Investment Management Corporation of Ontario (IMCO) and APG Asset Management. In a statement, euNe...

August 31, 2024

Canada

Bitfarms to acquire Stronghold Mining for $125 million

Cryptomining firm Bitfarms has entered into a definitive partnership with Stronghold Digital Mining under which Bitfarms will acquire Stronghold in a stock-for-stock merger transaction. The deal is valued at approximately $125 million equity value plus the assumption of debt valued at approxim...

August 27, 2024

Canada

Avaio signs solar and storage deal in Canada

Avaio has signed a renewable energy deal with Quebec-based renewable energy firm, Sunbird Energy for its upcoming data center project outside Ottawa, Canada. The partnership integrates Sunbird’s renewable energy capabilities with ADP’s data center project in development in Gatineau, Quebec. ...

August 25, 2024

Canada

Quinbrook’s Rowan secures investment from Canadian pension fund

Rowan owner Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners this week announced that Rowan Digital Infrastructure has secured a co-investment from University Pension Plan Ontario (UPP). The companies said UPP’s investment in Rowan will allow Quinbrook to “further advance its efforts” to provide solutions t...

August 15, 2024

Canada

Consensus Core selects Cologix for its Canadian deployment.

Artificial intelligence (AI) cloud provider Consensus Core has selected Cologix's Montreal data center for its Canadian deployment where it will offer its Nvidia-powered GPU-as-a-Service to the Canadian market. Wayne Lloyd, co-founder and CEO of Consensus Core, said of the partnership with Co...

August 11, 2024

Canada

CTA calls for stricter measures against copper theft

The Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA) has called for tougher measures to deter the theft of copper cables as related crimes have increased by an estimated 200% each year from 2021 to 2023.“It’s something we’ve seen over the past couple of years, quite a substantial increase in inst...

July 08, 2024

Canada

Canadian government to make $12m investment for supercomputer

The federal and provincial governments of Canada has announced plans to invest CA$16.4m (US$12m) in Arbutus Research Cloud; the largest cloud computing site for academic research in Canada, for its supercomputer infrastructure.“Cloud computing accelerates the speed of research and streamlines ...

June 06, 2024

Canada

Armstrongs unveils critical event monitoring data center in Quebec, Canada

Candian monitoring service provider Armstrongs has unveiled a critical event monitoring data center will provide a primary home in Canada for all the receivers and storage of subscribers' data in Laval, Quebec. From this new campus, Amstrongs will be able to provide dedicated video monitoring ...

May 03, 2024

Canada

Schneider Electric partners with Terrestrial Energy for small reactors

Nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) company Terrestrial Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Schneider Electric to jointly develop commercial opportunities and advance the deployment of IMSR plants as the reactor company is currently developing a 190MWe Integral Molten Salt Rea...

April 26, 2024

Canada

Canadian telco Rogers Communications blames outage on traffic accident

Canadian telco Rogers Communications has blamed its recent outage on a fiber optic cable cut between Guelph and Brampton after a crash knocked down traffic lights and wires, which happened at Claire Rd W and Gordon St in Guelph. “Customers in parts of Guelph and surrounding areas may be experi...

March 22, 2024

Canada

Exaion launches new data center in Canada

Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will pro...

March 18, 2024

Canada

Modine to acquire Scott Springfield Manufacturing

Modine this week announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of air handling units (AHU), Scott Springfield Manufacturing. Modine mentioned that it will gain ‘immediate access to a highly complementary product portfolio and a blue-c...

February 27, 2024

Canada

Moveworks expands with Canadian data center

Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada.The company noted that data privacy is a “cruc...

July 21, 2023

Canada

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel to begin work on data center

Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023, ...

July 19, 2023

Canada

Loblaw former data center in Canada bought by Grain & StratCap

Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract, Str...

June 22, 2023

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