Stantec is set to acquire Morrison Hershfield, a 1,150-person engineering and management firm headquartered in Markham, Ontario.

Completion of the 15-megawatt Scalelogix data centre gives development partners, Cologix and CIM Group, a new hyperscale facility in the Toronto market.

Allied Properties REIT has completed the $1.35-billion sale of its Toronto data centre portfolio to the Japanese telecommunications company, KDDI Corporation.

Investment partners, Brookfield Infrastructure and Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, have acquired Compass Datacenters LLC and its portfolio of 13 hyperscale campuses.

More than half of hyperscale sites worldwide are located in the United States, but Canada is among nine other countries where JLL analysts identify a development surge underway.

Calgary is listed as the only Canadian market that is currently creating a "buzz" within the  North American data centre world.

BentallGreenOak has augmented its nascent data centre portfolio with the acquisition of a 200,000-square-foot facility in downtown Montreal, continuing the foray into the alternative asset class launched earlier this spring.

Seen as the next big thing in data services, small hubs located near end-users are also more vulnerable to the encroaching outdoor environment than are vast temperature-controlled data centres.

CBRE Caledon acquired a stake in a $3.5-billion portfolio of 12 purpose-built high-quality data centres based in North America.

At least 84 Canadian commercial buildings have been abuzz during protracted COVID-19-related business shutdowns. They house the data centres that have literally underpinned the continued functioning of the economy.

Market analysts attribute Montreal's healthy status to low electricity rates and the arrival of "big-name" cloud providers.

The first purpose-built, next-generation data centre in Montreal is now under construction, scheduled for occupancy by the end of 2015. The Fonds immobilier de solidarité

A proposed energy standard from ASHRAE known as the Energy Standard for Data Centers and Telecommunications Buildings, is open for its first public review until