VAUGHAN, York Region, April 04, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — DuPont Fabros Technology Inc., a leading owner, developer, operator and manager of multi-tenant wholesale data centres, is pleased to announce that construction is underway at the company’s first-ever Canadian facility, located at the former Toronto Star printing plant in Vaughan, York Region. This will be one of the largest data centres in Canada, servicing leading businesses that rely on secure data as the lifeblood of their organizations.
Purchased by DFT in 2016 for approximately $55 million CAD, the building is being transformed into state-of-the-art infrastructure, vital for meeting the increasing demand for data centre capacity and data storage in Ontario. Once fully built, the Vaughan data centre, branded as TOR1, will include 23 computer rooms spread across 21,016M2 with a critical data power capacity of up to 46 MWs (megawatts). The first phase, which will include 12 computer rooms, is scheduled to open in late 2017.
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