Data center firm Yondr has energized its data center in Toronto, Canada.

DigitalBridge-owned Yondr Group this week energized the 27MW facility, which is expected to be ready for service in mid-2026. The data center is Yondr’s first in Canada.

Announced in 2024, Yondr broke ground on the three-story facility in February 2025. The 4.5-acre site in Ontario utilizes a closed-loop cooling system to reduce water use.

John Madden, Yondr’s chief data center officer, said: “We’re proud to mark the energization of our Toronto data center campus – a major milestone that moves us another step closer to delivering critical digital infrastructure for the region. Demand for capacity is accelerating at a pace we’ve never experienced before, driven by AI scale and a shift towards compute–led economies. Our Toronto campus forms a key part of Yondr’s strategy to deliver the next generation of sustainable, high-performance data center capacity across North America and beyond.”

Yondr is headquartered in London and was previously owned by single-family investment office Cathexis, Apollo Global Management, and Mubadala. It was acquired by DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund La Caisse in a deal that closed in July 2025. German financial giant Allianz has since acquired a minority stake in the business.

Yondr operates data center campuses across Europe, Asia, and North America, with developments in Virginia, Texas, Canada, the UK, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands.

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.