The Canadian data center market will see exponential growth in the coming years, sporting an almost 9GW development pipeline, according to a report by DC Byte.

As of Q2 2025, DC Byte lists Canada’s total IT capacity as 10.3GW. Total IT capacity is the sum of the capacity offered by four kinds of facilities: operational facilities, those under construction, those that have been ‘committed’, which refers to developments which have secured all necessary elements but have not begun construction, and those projects in their early stages, which refers to projects which have secured some, but not all, of its required elements.

Canada currently offers 1.4GW in live capacity, with the remaining 9GW of total IT capacity made up by projects in different stages of development.

Of this 9GW, 6.9GW are in their early stages.

Much of this growth is attributable to a “surge of announcements in the second half of 2024,” which includes Kevin O’Leary’s ‘Wonder Valley’ campus in Alberta, which has been advertised as offering 5.5GW of power constituted by 55 100MW facilities.

DC Byte writes that this harkens a new phase of growth “driven by AI and GPU-focused builds” that will materialize, at its earliest, in 2027, but that the existing landscape is still dominated by traditional players, including Vantage Data Centers, Cologix, Compass Datacenters, Urbacon, and eStruxture.

The report also states that 93 percent of Canada’s IT load is clustered around Toronto, Montreal, and Alberta.

Canada sports one of the world’s cleanest energy mixes, with around 60 percent of the country’s electricity comes from hydropower.