Canadian data center firm eStruxture has announced plans for a new data center in Calgary, Canada.
Located to the north of the Alberta city, in Balzac, CAL-2 will be built to Tier III standard and have 93,000 square feet (8,600 sqm) of space and 30MW of capacity. The facility is due to open with three initial data halls in the second half of 2022.
Montreal-based eStruxture currently has one data center in Calgary it acquired from Canadian telco Shaw Communications in 2019. The 65,000 square foot (6,000 sq m) facility was built in 2015.
"We entered the Calgary market three years ago on the belief that the economy would rebound, and the market would develop into a key Canadian data center market through growth and demand from both existing industries and new industries establishing their data center footprint here,” said Todd Coleman, president and CEO of eStruxture. “We have experienced this growth first-hand, filling out our capacity at CAL-1, our first facility in Calgary.”
Coleman said eStruxture was confident that Calgary is becoming one of Canada's critical data center hubs and was proud to be building a “Canadian colocation powerhouse.”
2021 has seen eStruxture raise CAN$600 million (US$487m) in a mixture of equity financing and credit, and acquire all eight Canadian data centers of managed service provider Aptum Technologies. The company now has a total of 15 facilities located in Vancouver, Calgary, Toronto, and Montreal.
