data centres
Canadian Property Management
CPP Investments steps up data centre strategy
Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has committed to a USD $5.6 billion investment in hyperscale data facilities through a newly announced joint venture.
Canadian Property Management
Data centres draw investment interest
Surging need for connectivity to enable burgeoning technologies like AI and the smart electricity grid has positioned data centres to be favoured investment assets into the future.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
ASHRAE opens portal to data centre guidance
ASHRAE has consolidated a range of technical guidance for the design and operations of data centres in a new special section of its website.
Canadian Property Management
Fengate ups digital infrastructure investment
Fengate Asset Management has increased its equity stake in Canadian digital infrastructure with a newly inked $1.8 billion investment in eStruxture Data Centers.
REMI Network
Stantec to acquire Morrison Hershfield
Stantec is set to acquire Morrison Hershfield, a 1,150-person engineering and management firm headquartered in Markham, Ontario.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Hyperscale data centre opens in Toronto market
Completion of the 15-megawatt Scalelogix data centre gives development partners, Cologix and CIM Group, a new hyperscale facility in the Toronto market.
Canadian Property Management
Toronto data centres dealt to Japanese telco
Allied Properties REIT has completed the $1.35-billion sale of its Toronto data centre portfolio to the Japanese telecommunications company, KDDI Corporation.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Hyperscale expectations for data storage demand
Investment partners, Brookfield Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, have acquired Compass Datacenters LLC and its portfolio of 13 hyperscale campuses.
REMI Network
Data centre hubs grow in scale and number
More than half of hyperscale sites worldwide are located in the United States, but Canada is among nine other countries where JLL analysts identify a development surge underway.
REMI Network
Data centre leasing hits record level in North America
Calgary is listed as the only Canadian market that is currently creating a "buzz" within the North American data centre world.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
BentallGreenOak grows data centre portfolio
BentallGreenOak has augmented its nascent data centre portfolio with the acquisition of a 200,000-square-foot facility in downtown Montreal, continuing the foray into the alternative asset class launched earlier this spring.
Canadian Facility Management & Design
Edge computing centres put a cloud in a cabinet
Seen as the next big thing in data services, small hubs located near end-users are also more vulnerable to the encroaching outdoor environment than are vast temperature-controlled data centres.
REMI Network
CBRE Caledon invests in 12 Vantage data centres
CBRE Caledon acquired a stake in a $3.5-billion portfolio of 12 purpose-built high-quality data centres based in North America.
Canadian Property Management
Data centres gain traffic missing from highways
At least 84 Canadian commercial buildings have been abuzz during protracted COVID-19-related business shutdowns. They house the data centres that have literally underpinned the continued functioning of the economy.
Canadian Property Management
Montreal and Toronto court data centre demand
Market analysts attribute Montreal's healthy status to low electricity rates and the arrival of "big-name" cloud providers.
REMI Network
First purpose-built data centre to rise in Montreal
The first purpose-built, next-generation data centre in Montreal is now under construction, scheduled for occupancy by the end of 2015. The Fonds immobilier de solidarité
REMI Network
Energy standard for data centres up for review
A proposed energy standard from ASHRAE known as the Energy Standard for Data Centers and Telecommunications Buildings, is open for its first public review until
