Province and metro data-centre guides

Read a regional count as an evidence boundary

These guides group the records currently held in the directory. A count is not a measure of megawatts, available suites or total buildings in the market. One carrier building can contain several operator records. A campus can appear as a parent record with a developing building. Some public-sector and enterprise sites publish little technical detail. Open the individual facility record to see the record type, operating state, source, check date and any facility-specific claims.

Province guides focus on the electricity and connection process that frames a project. Metro guides focus on the operating facilities, local interconnection pattern and questions a buyer or planner should take to an operator. Use both when the project crosses those boundaries. A Toronto shortlist still needs Ontario connection and billing context. A Quebec campus study can require a Montreal interconnection plan even when the compute site is outside the city core.

Turn a market guide into a shortlist

Begin with the facility role, deployment date, load, network dependencies, recovery objective and locations that users or systems must reach. Open the relevant province guide to identify utility, system-operator and policy gates. Then use the metro guide to compare operator and building patterns. Keep requested power, contracted power, published campus potential and current customer availability as four separate concepts.

Move candidate records into the comparison tool and read the source behind every useful field. Ask the operator to resolve unknown values and confirm current commercial availability. For physical resilience, check utility path, fibre route, access, fuel, staff and cloud dependencies instead of relying on distance alone. For power operations, use the Canadian power guide and maintenance planner to organize equipment and service inputs.

Date the resulting decision file and name the person who checked it. Public pages, utility programmes, rates and development schedules change. The change ledger shows recorded facility updates, while the source links in each guide lead back to the organization responsible for the current fact. Recheck critical answers before approving a site, circuit, service agreement or construction milestone.