Operational
Colocation
Air cooled
Tier III

Equinix OT1

Equinix · Ottawa

IT live
8 MW
Free to lease
1.0 MW
$ / kW·mo
$50
White space
67k ft²

Inventory

87% occupied

Power

8 MWlive

1.0 MW to lease · 7.0 MW in use

White space

67k ft²total

8,667 ft² free · 58k ft² occupied

6,194 m² · 805 m² free

Free power is unsold critical IT at this building, not utility headroom. Space is computer-room white space.

Power

IT live8 MW
Free to lease1.0 MW
Utility feed10.4 MW
Campus / planned8 MW

About 2.4 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$50/kW·mo

5¢ industrial · 6.9¢ after PUE 1.37

Per MW·year
$600k
This site · 8 MW
$4.8M/yr
5 kW rack
$250/mo
3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

1.6× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $1.7M/yr less.

Hydro-Québec Rate L / Gatineau · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy
N+1
Opened
2014
Renewable match
99%
Rack density
5 kW
PUE
1.371.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source
Hydro-Québec Gatineau. Dual feeds plus on-site diesel. Ottawa-metro hall on the Québec side of the river — Rate L, not Hydro Ottawa.

Cooling

Plant

Evaporative

Liquid

Not deployed

Rack density

5 kW

H100-eq

—

WUE

1.41 L/kWh

evaporative fleet · 2025 · 99k m³/yr at 8 MW

0 dry2.50 evaporative

Operator average for evaporative halls, applied here — not a meter on this site. Equinix 2025 Sustainability Report.

IDEC / chilled-water CRAH, N+1. Campus Cooling as a Service is available for high-density cabinets on request.

Network carriers

7

On-net and metro carriers typically present at this location, including internet exchanges. Not a full circuit inventory.

Clouds

6

Native regions and typical Direct Connect / ExpressRoute / Interconnect on-ramps at this campus. Availability varies by hall.

Location

Gatineau, Quebec, Canada

Gatineau, QC (Ottawa)

45.477°, -75.701° · North America

Tenants / users

Networks, cloud, enterprise, finance — Equinix Fabric

Notes

OT1 is an Equinix IBX in the Ottawa metro. Carrier-neutral IBX with Equinix Fabric, Internet Exchange, and cloud on-ramps. Fleet-average PUE was 1.37 in 2025.

Operator site

Compiled from public filings, operator pages, and reporting. Not an official operator specification.