Data center developer Yondr has broken ground on its first Canadian facility in Toronto.
The company last week held a ceremony to mark the start of work on the site of its 27MW data center.
Announced late last year, the project comprises a three-story, 27MW data center on a 4.5-acre site, which is scheduled to achieve RFS by mid-2026. The building will feature a closed-loop cooling design.
Kent Andersson, program controls director for the Americas at Yondr Group, said: “Our Toronto data center forms a key part of our strategy for North America, where there is an urgent need to increase capacity to support the digital economy. This project will play a key role in providing the infrastructure needed to support cutting-edge cloud computing and connectivity and enable the development of AI and future technologies in Canada and beyond."
Yondr is a developer, owner, and operator of data centers. The company currently has a contracted capacity of 878MW, with more than 58MW currently operational. The company has projects in Virginia, the UK, Malaysia, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, the Netherlands, and India.
Headquartered in London, it was was previously owned by single-family investment office Cathexis, Apollo Global Management, and Mubadala. October 2024 saw DigitalBridge announce it would acquire Yondr, though terms weren’t disclosed.
Toronto, Ontario, is a major data center market within Canada, with some 80 facilities across the city, according to Data Center Map. Operators in the area include Telehouse, Digital Realty, Equinix, Cologix, EdgeConneX, Centersquare, Hut 8, Cogent, eStruxture, Serverfarm, Stack, OVH, Compass, and others. Google and Microsoft have cloud regions in Toronto.