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Qu operates two enterprise-grade facilities across the Ottawa region — in Nepean and Kanata. Together they serve the full spectrum of federal government, defence-adjacent, and regulated enterprise requirements across the National Capital Region.

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Data Centre Ottawa. Canada’s Sovereignty Capital.

Two facilities, Nepean and Kanata, provide dual-site redundancy entirely within the National Capital Region. Federal organizations can operate active-active DR configurations without data leaving Ottawa. Proximity to Parliament Hill, DND, and Kanata North means sub-millisecond latency to the government and technology organizations that depend on sovereign infrastructure most.

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Ottawa data centre facilities.

Qu operates two enterprise-grade colocation facilities across the Ottawa region, in Nepean and Kanata.

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OTT3, Kanata

Tier III · 6 MW · AI Ready

Qu’s flagship Ottawa facility in the Kanata North technology corridor. 28,000 ft² building, 5–140 kW per rack, six carriers.

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OTT2, Nepean

Government and Defence Corridor

A compact, high-security colocation footprint designed for 5–140 kW deployments with N+2 cooling redundancy. Five carriers provide diverse fibre access.

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Industries served and location advantage

Trusted by Ottawa and federal organizations

Ottawa is Canada’s most strategically important data centre market for sovereign infrastructure. Federal procurement requirements, Government of Canada data residency mandates, and a dense concentration of defence-adjacent technology organizations make Ottawa the primary market for workloads that must operate under Canadian jurisdiction without exception.

Federal departments — from ESDC and CRA to DND and IRCC — require infrastructure that satisfies the Government of Canada's sovereign cloud mandate and Treasury Board requirements. Qu's Ottawa facilities provide the sovereign-by-structure alternative to foreign-owned providers. Our SOC, CSAE/ISAE, and ISO 27001 certifications are the documentation federal procurement teams require to defend a vendor selection in committee.

Ontario's PHIPA requirements and federal health data standards apply to organizations handling patient and administrative data across the National Capital Region. Qu's Ottawa facilities provide ISO 27001 and SOC-certified infrastructure for health authorities and provincial agencies that cannot risk foreign-jurisdiction exposure on sensitive health records.

Kanata North — Canada's largest technology hub outside downtown Toronto — is home to defence-adjacent tech, telecom, and federal contractor organizations with heightened sovereignty requirements. Qu's OTT3 facility in Kanata provides direct access to this ecosystem with Tier III reliability, 5–140 kW per rack density, and physical security standards aligned to federal security frameworks.

Two geographically distinct Ottawa facilities — Nepean and Kanata — enable active-active and active-passive disaster recovery configurations entirely within the National Capital Region. Organizations with zero-tolerance RPO and RTO requirements can maintain geographically separate primary and secondary environments without data crossing provincial or national borders.

The Ottawa advantage

Dual-facility carrier diversity across Nepean and Kanata. OTT3's Kanata location provides direct access to the Kanata North technology corridor and federal contractor networks. Both facilities maintain physically isolated carrier interconnect rooms with no shared points of failure between providers.

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 Certified and compliant.

OTT3 holds Uptime Institute Tier III certification. Both Ottawa facilities are independently audited to SOC 1, SOC 2, CSAE 3416, and ISAE 3402 standards. OTT3 also holds ISO 27001, GLBA, and PCI DSS v3.2, the certifications federal procurement, healthcare, and financial services compliance teams require before a contract is signed.

 

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Canadian jurisdiction. No exceptions.

As a Canadian-owned operator, Qu Data Centres operates entirely under Canadian jurisdiction. Your data at our Ottawa facilities is not subject to the US CLOUD Act or any foreign legal authority, a structural fact of our ownership that no contractual commitment from a foreign-owned provider can replicate.

  • Data sovereignty, hosted in Canada, subject only to Canadian law

  • Operational sovereignty, 130+ Canadian employees, operations managed on Canadian soil

  • Leadership sovereignty, Canadian executive team, no foreign management layer

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Connectivity

Connectivity across Ottawa

Carrier-neutral infrastructure across both Ottawa facilities with multiple network providers, diverse fibre routing, and direct connectivity options for federal government network infrastructure.

  • Rogers, Telus, Bell, Zayo, GoCo, Videotron

  • Multiple isolated carrier entry points

  • Physically isolated interconnect rooms

  • Megaport on-net cloud on-ramps

  • AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud access

  • Rogers, Telus, Bell, Zayo, Allstream

  • Multiple isolated carrier entry points

  • Physically isolated interconnect rooms

  • Diverse fibre routing with redundant paths

  • Carrier-neutral — no single-provider lock-in

Ottawa connectivity advantage:

  • Dual-facility carrier diversity across Nepean and Kanata. OTT3's Kanata location provides direct access to the Kanata North technology corridor and federal contractor networks. Both facilities maintain physically isolated carrier interconnect rooms with no shared points of failure between providers.

Frequently asked questions, Ottawa

Answers to the questions Ontario buyers, compliance teams, and energy sector IT ask before signing. 

Yes. Qu is Canadian-owned and operates exclusively under Canadian law. Federal departments, crown corporations, and defence-adjacent organizations deploy with Qu Ottawa because our infrastructure is not subject to the US CLOUD Act or any foreign legal authority — a structural fact of our ownership, not a contractual claim.

OTT2 in Nepean is a compact, high-security facility suited to federal government and defence-adjacent workloads in the National Capital Region's government corridor. OTT3 in Kanata is Qu's larger Ottawa facility — Uptime Institute Tier III certified, 6 MW design capacity, with AI and high-density workload support. Both are carrier-neutral with independent fibre routing.

Our Canadian ownership, Tier III certifications, and CSAE/ISAE audits position us to meet Shared Services Canada requirements. Contact our solutions team for spec sheets, security posture summaries, and certification matrices suitable for RFP response.

We have available capacity at both Ottawa facilities today. Our solutions architects typically move from first conversation to a live proposal within a week.

Yes. Both Ottawa facilities operate under Canadian jurisdiction with Canadian staff, aligning with Treasury Board requirements for sovereign data hosting. OTT3 holds SOC 1, SOC 2, ISO 27001, CSAE 3416, ISAE 3402, and PCI DSS v3.2 certifications — the documentation federal procurement teams require.

Yes. OTT3 is located in Kanata — within Canada's largest technology park outside Toronto. It serves defence-adjacent tech, telecom, and federal contractor organizations with Tier III certified, sovereign infrastructure and 5–140 kW per rack density.

Yes. OTT2 in Nepean and OTT3 in Kanata are geographically distinct facilities. Federal organizations with zero-tolerance RPO and RTO requirements can operate active-active or active-passive DR configurations with both primary and secondary environments remaining within Ottawa and under Canadian jurisdiction.

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