Our first data centre opened in 2001 in a former printing works on the Toronto waterfront. It houses the TNS network operations centre, which watches every managed network and every rack we run, in every country, around the clock.
DC1 has six data halls on three floors, two per floor, with 1,152 rack positions in all. It was refitted in 2019 and again in 2024, when the halls were re-engineered for high-density loads of up to 40 kW a rack. A carrier-neutral meet-me room connects 23 network providers, and two independent plant rooms draw on 56 MW of utility supply from two substations to deliver 38 MW of critical IT load.
Visits to DC1 are by appointment for customers and accredited auditors. Tours for students run twice a year through the graduate programme.