Montreal

Montreal anchors NetActuate's Canadian footprint (YUL) at a facility built for scale and sustainability. The 320,000-square-foot campus delivers 48MW of critical load capacity to Tier III+ standards, with four meet-me rooms enabling diverse fiber paths and access to 10+ carriers. Geographic redundancy between the Quebec City and Montreal power grids, paired with N+1 mechanical and electrical systems fed by two 25kV feeders and a dedicated 120kV substation, gives deployments here resilience few North American markets can match.

Montreal's digital economy has grown into one of the most distinctive in North America. Montreal-based AI startups raised over $800 million in 2024 alone, the highest concentration of AI venture investment per capita anywhere on the continent, anchored by the Mila research institute and a deep pipeline of McGill and Polytechnique Montréal talent. The city also carries an outsized gaming industry presence, with major studio operations from Ubisoft, Warner Bros., and Electronic Arts drawing heavy compute and rendering workloads into the region, a genuinely different profile than a typical secondary metro. 2727 Coworking

The facility's energy story stands out too. Nearly 100% of its power comes from hydroelectric generation, supplemented by outside air cooling, a geothermal system, and rainwater capture and reuse, keeping PUE low year-round and giving customers a low-carbon alternative to hyperscale regions dependent on diesel backup and fossil-fueled grids.

Beyond the building, Montreal sits within single-digit milliseconds of Toronto, New York, and Boston, making it a practical low-latency point of presence for Canadian and Northeastern US workloads. Quebec's cool climate keeps ambient cooling costs down, and the province carries minimal seismic or severe-weather risk. Canada's data privacy framework adds an edge for workloads that need to stay north of the border without sacrificing North American reach.

Backed by PCI-DSS, ISO 27001, and SOC 2 Type II compliance, biometric and facial recognition access control, and a perimeter reinforced by more than 160 ten-ton granite boulders, Montreal is built for production workloads, not just overflow capacity.

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