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Hyperscale

Liquid cooling

Tier III

OVHcloud Beauharnois BHS

OVHcloud · BHS / Rio Tinto

IT live: 36 MW
Remaining: 24 MW
$ / kW·mo: $37
White space: 426k ft²

Inventory

60% occupied

Power

60 MWcampus

24 MW to commission · 36 MW in use

White space

710k ft²total

284k ft² free · 426k ft² occupied

66k m² · 26k m² free

Remaining power is campus IT not yet commissioned — captive capacity, not third-party colo.

Power

IT live36 MW

Remaining24 MW

Utility feed75 MW

Campus / planned60 MW

About 39 MW of the utility feed is cooling, conversion, and house load.

Power cost

$37/kW·mo

4.6¢ industrial · 5¢ after PUE 1.09

Per MW·year: $439k
This site · 36 MW: $16M/yr
12 kW rack: $439/mo

3.2¢ cheapdear 22.4¢

1.4× the cheapest market (Iceland Landsvirkjun). Same IT load there is $4.8M/yr less.

Hydro-Québec Beauharnois dam · utility tariff × PUE, not colo list price.

Redundancy: N+1
Opened: 2012
Renewable match: 99%
Rack density: 12 kW
Voltage: 600 V
25 kV
120 kV
PUE: 1.091.00 ideal · 1.60 typical
Power source: Hydro-Québec Beauharnois generating station (1,903 MW dam). Dual private lines. 12 on-site generators. Former Rio Tinto Alcan smelter.

Cooling

Plant

Seawater

Liquid

Deployed

Rack density

12 kW

H100-eq

—

WUE

—

Operator has not published WUE. Blank, not zero — air-cooled sites still use some water.

OVH in-house waterblocks plus Saint Lawrence river-water heat rejection next to the Beauharnois dam. No evaporative towers.

Network carriers

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

Clouds

OVHcloud

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

Location

Beauharnois, Quebec, Canada

40 Rue de l'Industrie, Beauharnois, QC J6N 0C2

45.314°, -73.879° · North America

Tenants / users

OVHcloud dedicated, public cloud, Bare Metal, North America server factory

Notes

Eight refurbished halls (BHS1-8) in a former aluminium smelter. ~90,000 servers, watercooled from the Saint Lawrence. Assembles all OVH North America servers (~1,000/week). Not multi-tenant colo. Complements Roubaix/Gravelines already in the index.

Operator site

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