Data centers in the Montreal market

About the Montreal market

The directory lists 40 data centers in the Montreal market, 22 percent of the 182 listed in Canada and 39th among the 64 markets it covers. They are run by 15 operators in 12 towns and cities. Montreal itself holds 22 of them, 55 percent of the market, followed by Verdun with 3 and Longueuil, Pointe-Claire and Varennes with 2 each.

Cologix has the most listings, 12, followed by Vantage with 6, Amazon Web Services with 3 and Equinix with 2. Other operators include Bell Canada, CGI, Compass and Hydro-Québec. 24 records are colocation sites, and the list also includes 2 cloud regions, 2 hyperscale sites and 4 enterprise data centers.

Floor area is the one size measure published here, by 13 buildings. Cologix's MTL8 Data Center in Montreal is the largest listed building at 206,000 square feet, followed by its MTL10 in Longueuil at 180,000. Equinix MT1 in Saint Laurent comes next at about 63,000 square feet, and MT2 in Vaudreuil-Dorion at about 38,000.

Only 2 listed facilities are recorded as operational and the other 38 carry no status in the data; the directory lists none under construction or planned in the market. 5 facilities hold an Uptime Institute certification, all at Tier III.