Toronto Parliament Street Data Centre | ?m | 5s | BRL Realty | WZMH

[Marcanadian]

Plus the exterior of the building which I'm sure many are already familiar with:

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcanadian, on Flickr

 

[someMidTowner]

Bonus detail shot:

 

[Ryan_T]

Beautiful. I wouldn't mind having that on my wall.

 

[hawc]

Seems like a waste to not put some form of social housing above?

Really? You expected them to build social housing on top of this? Really?

 

[Miscreant]

If not directly above a data center, then by God where?

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

If not directly above a data center, then by God where?

Uh, anywhere else? It's a private company's 100% owned building that has nothing to do with housing.

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

BNN interview

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/tech...ming-a-major-global-data-hub/article24002491/

FYI

 

[Miscreant]

Uh, anywhere else? It's a private company's 100% owned building that has nothing to do with housing.

Time to for a spring tune-up on the sarcasm detector, I think. Sometimes the needle gets stiff over a long winter.

 

[canmark]

Gorgeous. Love the design and the colour.

 

[Riverdale Rink Rat]

Time to for a spring tune-up on the sarcasm detector, I think. Sometimes the needle gets stiff over a long winter.

Hahaha... I have no excuse, with 27C and the dry season for the last two months...

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

What's it with the blue-LED in server rooms?

AoD

 

[someMidTowner]

What's it with the blue-LED in server rooms?

AoD

That's a signature of Equinix. They have blue lighting in all of their data centres.

 

[AlvinofDiaspar]

That's a signature of Equinix. They have blue lighting in all of their data centres.

Ah, thanks. It looks great - even better when the racks are filled - though part of me fancy what a Foster or Rogers datacentre would look like...

A Borg cube (or sphere?), no doubt. For reference, I consider this to be the gold standard of data centre architecture: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Beijing_Building

AoD

 

[christiesplits]

Toronto, the only city where our "background buildings" are more beautiful than our so-called "iconic" buildings.

 

[Marcanadian]

Friday afternoon:

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr

Parliament Street Data Centre by Marcus Mitanis, on Flickr