AWS Canada Central (Montréal)
Amazon Web Services · ca-central-1
- IT live
- 80 MW
- Remaining
- 40 MW
- $ / kW·mo
- $41
- White space
- 625k ft²
Inventory
67% occupiedPower
120 MWcampus
40 MW to commission · 80 MW in use
White space
938k ft²total
313k ft² free · 625k ft² occupied
87k m² · 29k m² free
Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.
Power
About 70 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.
Power cost
$41/kW·mo
5¢ industrial · 5.6¢ after PUE 1.12
- Per MW·year
- $491k
- This site · 80 MW
- $39M/yr
- 20 kW rack
- $818/mo
1.6× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $14M/yr less.
Hydro-Québec Rate L · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.
- Redundancy
- N+1
- Opened
- 2016
- Renewable match
- 99%
- Rack density
- 20 kW
- PUE
- 1.121.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
- Power source
- Hydro-Québec. Dual MV inlets plus on-site diesel. ~99.8 percent hydro (Rate L on large sites).
Cooling
Plant
Hybrid
Liquid
Deployed
Rack density
20 kW
H100-eq
—
WUE
0.12 L/kWh
fleet avg · 2025 · 84k m³/yr at 80 MW
Operator fleet average applied to this hall — not a site meter. AWS 2025 sustainability disclosure.
Hybrid CRAH plus CDU-fed direct-to-chip loops for high-density AI cabinets.
Network carriers
7On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.
Clouds
1Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.
Location
Montréal, Quebec, Canada
Greater Montréal (AZ undisclosed)
45.520°, -73.580° · North America
Tenants / users
AWS
Notes
ca-central-1. First AWS Canadian region. Three AZs on Hydro-Québec. Completes the Montréal cloud set with Azure Canada East overflow and Google northamerica-northeast1.
Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.