Toronto Downtown Data Centre | 38.5m | 4s | Equinix Inc | WZMH

[lomeri]

I think ultimately that there are better places to put the data center. This area of the city is growing and it doesn’t make sense to have an building not meant for people or retail along front street, especially considering how close to a subway stop it is.

the city and province should really be thinking about how to make the pedestrian experience here, essentially between Jarvis and Cherry, a lot better because of how much development will happen over the next 10 years. In that context, this land is better used as housing or offices than a data center.

 

[Irishmonk]

Thanks goodness this has been 86'd--the city really dodged a bullet here.. Frankly, I can't imagine a less appropriate use for this site--might as well have been an 8 story parking garage or a transformer station. Now something truly urban and decent can be integrated with the forthcoming subway stop.

 

[interchange42]

There are maps of the internet out there… and while infrapedia below shows lines, it doesn't provide enough info to differentiate them… Anyone know where one can identify the largest trunk lines?

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[jxmyth_]

Just noticed that Downtown Chrysler has been posting on social media about moving to Don Roadway sometime soon. Which begs the question- is the former data centre site about to get bigger?

 

[DSC]

Just noticed that Downtown Chrysler has been posting on social media about moving to Don Roadway sometime soon. Which begs the question- is the former data centre site about to get bigger?

I would say that the second phase of the data centre is toast as the government REALLY wants to add more people around the new Corktown (or First Parliament) Ontario Line station. The Downtown Chrysler site actually belongs to the Ontario government so I REALLY doubt it will be anything but condos (maybe with an office component.

 

[Dr. Snoot]

Walking by today I noticed that they took down all fencing around the site that’s been there for years. It’s just an open field now. Not sure if that means anything at all, just what I saw.

 

[Towered]

Walking by today I noticed that they took down all fencing around the site that’s been there for years. It’s just an open field now. Not sure if that means anything at all, just what I saw.

"Welcome to Distillery Beach"!

 

[achender]

Noticed this today.
Extra space for the first parliament site work?

 

[Rufus8]

There is a white tent up on the Berkeley St site, just south of Front, passed by it today and asked if they had found anything interesting, workman said they found rail car turntable metres below ground. Found a ring on Berkeley as I was leaving, covered in dirt, possibly from the site? So interesting!

 

[DSC]

Sorry to bump this thread but was wondering if anyone knows what is happening here. Clearly Phase 2 of the data centre is NOT happening and I assume it will eventually be a tall residential building (right beside the Corktown/First Parliament station.

 

[jxmyth_]

Sorry to bump this thread but was wondering if anyone knows what is happening here. Clearly Phase 2 of the data centre is NOT happening and I assume it will eventually be a tall residential building (right beside the Corktown/First Parliament station.

Anyone know if this has been parcelled with the car dealership- and if so by whom? I presumed it was the same people who did the original data centre- that’s who the city traded land with right?

Be interesting if the province expropriates to go along with the last distillery building on Mill. What for? Skies the limit

 

[DSC]

This video gives a fairly interesting view INSIDE the data centre.

He describes it as "Lake Cooled" but I did not think that the Enwave Cooling went that far east, yet.

 

[rbt]

He describes it as "Lake Cooled" but I did not think that the Enwave Cooling went that far east, yet.

Some Equinox centres use geothermal cooling. Reaching ground-water, effectively lake-water at this location, would not be very deep. For marketing purposes you might call that lake cooled.

Enwave cooling does not go east of Yonge AFAIK, and most planned expansion is north/west of The Well. Enwave does have steam/heating service as far east as Jarvis.


Equinox's TR1 location (151 Front) does use Enwave Deep Lake Cooling: perhaps there was some confusion about the specific facility being discussed with some green features.

 

[daptive]

This video gives a fairly interesting view INSIDE the data centre.

He describes it as "Lake Cooled" but I did not think that the Enwave Cooling went that far east, yet.

Some Equinox centres use geothermal cooling. Reaching ground-water, effectively lake-water at this location, would not be very deep. For marketing purposes you might call that lake cooled.

Enwave cooling does not go east of Yonge AFAIK, and most planned expansion is north/west of The Well. Enwave does have steam/heating service as far east as Jarvis.


Equinox's TR1 location (151 Front) does use Enwave Deep Lake Cooling: perhaps there was some confusion about the specific facility being discussed with some green features.

In the video he actually specifies “some time in the near future, when the 4th pipe goes online in the DLWC system”

Referring to this expansion I believe:

The fourth line “give(s) us more capacity to be able to expand our system where density counts,” Enwave's CEO Carlyle Coutinho told Sustainable Biz Canada in an interview before the ceremony.

Currently, the DLWC system extends as far north as Queen’s Park, west to The Well and eastward to the East Bayfront. The expansion stretches the system's reach outside the downtown core to the north, east and west.

Big expansion for Enwave's Toronto deep lake water cooling system

A fourth intake pipe for Enwave Energy Corporation’s deep lake water cooling (DLWC) system in Toronto expands the company’s reach in a growing city with increasing demand for low-carbon cooling.

sustainablebiz.ca

 

[DSC]

In the video he actually specifies “some time in the near future, when the 4th pipe goes online in the DLWC system”

Referring to this expansion I believe:

Big expansion for Enwave's Toronto deep lake water cooling system

A fourth intake pipe for Enwave Energy Corporation’s deep lake water cooling (DLWC) system in Toronto expands the company’s reach in a growing city with increasing demand for low-carbon cooling.

sustainablebiz.ca

Though I would certainly like to see Lake Cooling here, there are no signs of any eastward expansion as far as Parliament St and the cost would be HUGE. It MAY get there one day but it is FAR from imminent!