November 06, 2024 Canada
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,...
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October 16, 2024 Canada
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...
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September 18, 2024 Canada
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, including...
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August 31, 2024 Canada
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,...
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August 27, 2024 Canada
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...
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August 25, 2024 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. “As a...
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August 15, 2024 Canada
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 to...
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August 11, 2024 Canada
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...
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July 08, 2024 Canada
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...
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June 06, 2024 Canada
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...
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May 03, 2024 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 and...
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April 26, 2024 Canada
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...
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March 22, 2024 Canada
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...
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March 18, 2024 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...
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February 27, 2024 Canada
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-chip...
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July 21, 2023 Canada
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...
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July 19, 2023 Canada
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,...
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April 19, 2023 Canada
A five-year agreement between the Canadian government and the Swedish vendor Ericsson will see more than $351 million invested in two research and development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. To enhance mobile networks, the investment will concentrate on 5G Advanced, 6G, Cloud...
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March 09, 2023 Canada
Acronis has announced the availability of its new Cyber Cloud data center in Toronto, Canada, adding to its global network, which includes a total of fifty locations, including the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and other regions. The company has outlined...
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January 20, 2023 Canada
ManageEngine has announced that it has opened two new Canadian data centers in Toronto and Montreal in order to offer Canadian customers, what it called, the benefits of localized data centers. This move is also reportedly in response to tightening privacy regulations across the world, with the...
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