In recent years, giants have invested billions of dollars in gigantic data centers that host what we do on the internet every day.
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These projects have made Quebec a veritable paradise for data centers. And it’s not over if we rely on, for example, the $735 million center Google plans to build on farmland owned by Hydro-Québec.
Large data centers in Quebec
Company : Digital Bridge (Vantage)
- Shareholders: PSP Investments and DigitalBridge
- Regions: Montreal (3 centers) and Quebec (1 center)
- Date of implantation: 2018
- Investments: $1.7 billion
- Jobs: 125
Company : eStructure
- Shareholders: Caisse de depot et Placement du Québec, LPF DATA CENTER HOLDINGS LP and CH Struxtures Holdings Inc.
- Region : Montreal (5 centers)
- Date of implantation: 2017
- IInvestments: + $680M
- Jobs: Not available
Company : OVH
- Shareholder: OVH France
- Region : Beauharnois (1 center)
- Date of implantation: 2012
- Investments: between $100 million and $1 billion
- Jobs: 150 jobs
Company : AWS
- Shareholder: Amazon
- Region : Montreal (number not available)
- Date of implantation: 2016
- Investments: Hundreds of millions of dollars
- Jobs: Not available
Company : cologix
- Shareholder: Stonepeak Infrastructure Partner
- Region : Montreal (10 centers)
- Date of implantation: 2012
- Investments: Hundreds of millions of dollars
- Jobs: Not available
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