Ottawa is a data center operated by Equinix in Ottawa. The facility is currently operational. It sits in the Ottawa data-center market on the IESO grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 23.9-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 Ottawa — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Ottawa — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Ottawa's data center market remains nascent and structurally challenged. The tracked footprint comprises just six facilities with zero megawatts of operational capacity, operated by a fragmented vendor landscape dominated by DNSnetworks Corporation and PureColo Inc. two facilities each, with single-site presences from Equinix and Qu Datacentres. The absence of any recent M&A activity in Ottawa contrasts sharply with broader Canadian market momentum, where major players like Aligned Data Centres have commanded acquisition valuations exceeding $5 billion and provincial governments have begun rolling out supportive regulatory frameworks. The DCPI verdict of excess-power 29/100 combined with elevated constraint scoring 42/100 signals a market unsuitable for acquisition entry. This dual weakness indicates neither surplus power availability to support expansion nor sufficient infrastructure…
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Published DC Hub data for this location.
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