October 25, 2021 Quebec Province
Just two years ago, Quebec had just 39 data centers; now, this number has shot up to 50. So, what’s driving this growth? Well, the Canadian city offers vast amounts of low-cost and green energy, generated mainly from hydro dams, which gives it the big green tick. Of course, while it’s no...
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October 22, 2021 Validus Power: North Bay
Today, the new owners of the former Atlantic Power Corp. power plant in North Bay, Ontario, Validus Power Corp and Hut 8 Mining, held a ground- breaking ceremony signalling the start of development on the site. The proposed 32,000-square-foot data center will see an injection of over $100 million...
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July 21, 2021 Canada
As part of Sophos ongoing expansion, it has moved into Montreal, Canada, meaning the company now has a presence in the U.S., Germany, and Ireland, as well as Sydney, Australia and Tokyo, Japan. In a statement speaking about the rollout of these new data centers, the company said: "We're delighted...
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June 22, 2021 Cologix VAN4
Cologix is branching out in Canada. It has announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Zayo's 65,000 sq ft (6,000 sqm) interconnection facility in Vancouver. Cologix will add 4.2MW of capacity to the site. In addition to this, the company has also announced plans to add a...
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June 21, 2021 Toronto
Intermarket Properties wants to build a data center in Cambridge, Canada. According to Canada Construct Connect, the Company is seeking approval for a 100,000 square feet data center. The proposed data center site is a 40 acre Waterloo Corporate Campus with mixed-use redevelopment that consists...
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May 27, 2021 Digital Realty 151 Front
Digital Realty has announced that it has opened its new YYZ12 data center in Toronto, Canada, while breaking ground on its Marseille facility. The new facility, located at 151 Front St (Toronto's carrier hotel), is DRT's third data center in the metro and will be fully interconnected with...
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May 12, 2021 Hyperscale Data Center
Plans are in place for Google to acquire a property in Beauharnois, Quebec, and turn it into a data center. The proposed data center is estimated to cost $600 million. The 62.4 hectares plot of land is owned by Hydro-Québec, and is currently zoned as agricultural land, the provincial government...
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May 07, 2021 STACK Toronto TOR01
Stack has announced a partnership with First Gulf to develop a 56 MW campus in Toronto, Ontario. This campus will be Stack’s first international expansion, and it is at a strategic location- Toronto, the fourth largest city in North America. The CEO of Stack, Brian Cox, also described Toronto as...
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August 25, 2020 Hypertec YUL01B
Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) has announced that it is expanding its fabric to Hypertec's Pointe-Claire two-facility campus (YUL01.) The announcement was made on twitter. See below.
June 04, 2020 ServerFarm Toronto TOR1
ServerFarm has upgraded its Toronto facility. The project to add 14MW of new critical capacity to ServerFarm’s existing Toronto data center included a major construction phase, which was completed during the COVID-19 lockdown. The facility’s utility power availability is now over 21MW.ServerFarm...
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May 07, 2020 eStruxture TOR-1
Beanfield Metroconnect, a Canadian independent telecommunications infrastructure provider, has added to its bank account and its fiber network footprint. According to owners Digital Colony, the global digital infrastructure investment platform of Colony Capital, Inc. (NYSE: CLNY), Beanfield has...
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May 05, 2020 Compass Toronto Etobicoke
Compass Datacenters acquired an existing building and land in Etobicoke, Ontario to build a campus. Etobicoke is just West of Toronto. Costing $100 million USD, the first phase, the initial data hall will support 10MW of critical IT load when construction is completed in Q3 of 2020. The data...
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December 12, 2019 eStruxture Montréal MTL2
MONTREAL, QC – eStruxture, a leading Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, recently joined forces with the Architects of Continuity™ from Vertiv to transform the building formerly housing the Montreal Gazette printing press into its MTL-2 facility that officially...
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November 06, 2019 eStruxture Calgary CAL-1
eStruxture Data Centers has announced that it has won a new customer in its Calgary facility. The Calgary-based SaaS provider VEERUM is moving into eStruxture's facility in Calgary, Alberta. eStructure acquired the facility from Shaw in August. VEERUM specializes in asset visualization and...
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October 03, 2019 Cologix MTL10-S
Cologix announced today that it has expanded its Longueuil Campus, located Northeast of Montreal in Quebec. The expansion was initiated by Colo-D in October 2018. Colo-D was acquired by Cologix two months later in December. Previously known as Colo-D2, the facility is now known as MTL10-H. The...
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September 06, 2019 Cologix Vancouver VAN3
Cologix launched its third data center in Vancouver. The company is the dominant provider in Vancouver, which is an underserved metro for colocation services. The Canadians city would benefit from more competition from colocation providers.The Cologix Press Release DENVER – Cologix, a...
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August 01, 2019 eStruxture Calgary CAL-1
eStruxture is expanding again and continues the trend of carrier colo sold to carrier-neutral operators. eStruxture claims this is the largest data center in calgary, but the jury is out. Rogers has a building in Airdrie just North of Calgary that is 85,000 sqft. eStuxture will also share the...
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February 26, 2019 Cologix MTL11
Metro Optic’s Montreal Interconnection hub is key termination point for subsea cables and adds a further 30+ carriers to the Cologix ecosystem.DENVER – February 26, 2019 — Cologix, a network-neutral, interconnection and Hyperscale edge data center company, today announced it has acquired Montreal...
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January 15, 2019 eStruxture Vancouver VAN1
MONTREAL – January 15, 2019 – eStruxture, a leading pan-Canadian provider of network and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announces the expansion of its Vancouver-based VAN-1 facility. The company also announces that Andrew Fowler, a colocation veteran with 30 years of sales experience, has...
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October 26, 2018 Cologix Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville (Colo-D3 Proposed)
MONTREAL - COLO-D is proud to announce that it will develop a new 150 MW data center in Saint-Bruno-de-Montarville, 15 km from downtown Montreal. This move makes COLO-D Canada's largest data center provider for enterprise customers. Simultaneously, COLO-D will add 15 MW to its D2 facility in...
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