Equinix VA1 - Vancouver is a data center operated by Equinix in Burnaby, BC, CA. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Vancouver data-center market on the BCH grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 14.4-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Vancouver — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Vancouver — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Vancouver's data center footprint remains modest at 35 MW across 86 tracked facilities, with Cologix commanding the largest operational presence at 12 MW, followed by its affiliated entity Cologix, Inc. at 5 MW. The market is heavily operator-concentrated, with the top five players controlling the majority of deployed capacity and no meaningful geographic diversification of infrastructure. This limited scale reflects a market still in early-stage consolidation, lacking the density and redundancy profiles that characterize mature North American hubs. The DCPI verdict of AVOID—driven by an excess-power score of 44/100 paired with constraint at 33/100—signals structural headwinds for acquisition-stage investors. The moderate excess-power rating indicates available capacity exists but is not competitive or consistently accessible; the low constraint score reflects weak pricing power and…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
Networks recorded as present at or immediately around Equinix VA1 - Vancouver in public peering records. Treat this as a map of who is there, not as a list of contracted cross-connects — availability, diversity and pricing are the operator’s to confirm.
Source: PeeringDB carrier-to-facility records, matched to this site by location. A network listed here may sit in a neighbouring hall or an adjacent building at the same address, so presence is reported for the location rather than for a single suite.
DC Hub tracks 11 operating generating units totalling 915 MW within about 50 km of Burnaby, CA. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
Comparable facilities in Burnaby tracked by DC Hub — compare power, operators, and grid context across the market.
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