Yondr Powers Up 27MW Toronto Data Center, Its First Facility in Canada
April 22, 2026
Yondr Group, a global data center developer and operator, has achieved a critical milestone in its North American expansion by energizing its first Canadian facility, a 27-megawatt data center in Toronto. This move underscores the intensifying competition in key digital infrastructure hubs to meet the surging demand for high-performance computing, particularly from artificial intelligence workloads.
The company, owned by DigitalBridge, announced the project in 2024 and commenced construction on the three-story facility in February 2025. Located on a 4.5-acre site in Ontario, the data center utilizes a closed-loop cooling system designed to minimize water consumption. The facility is now energized and is expected to be fully operational and ready for service by mid-2026.
John Madden, Yondr’s chief data center officer, emphasized the project's significance, stating, “We’re proud to mark the energization of our Toronto data center campus – a major milestone that moves us another step closer to delivering critical digital infrastructure for the region. Demand for capacity is accelerating at a pace we’ve never experienced before, driven by AI scale and a shift towards compute-led economies. Our Toronto campus forms a key part of Yondr’s strategy to deliver the next generation of sustainable, high-performance data center capacity across North America and beyond.”
The Toronto launch follows a period of significant corporate evolution for Yondr. Originally backed by investors including Cathexis, Apollo Global Management, and Mubadala, the London-headquartered firm was acquired by DigitalBridge and Canadian pension fund manager La Caisse in July 2025. Subsequently, German financial giant Allianz acquired a minority stake in the business. Yondr’s global portfolio spans campuses in Europe, Asia, and North America, with active developments in markets such as Virginia, Texas, the UK, Indonesia, Japan, Germany, and the Netherlands.
The new facility enters a mature and competitive Toronto market, which Data Center Map estimates hosts approximately 80 data centers. The landscape includes major colocation providers like Digital Realty, Equinix, and Cologix, as well as cloud regions operated by Google and Microsoft. Yondr’s entry with a sizable, sustainably-focused campus highlights the strategic importance of the Canadian market as a gateway for digital services and a response to the unprecedented capacity demands of the AI era.
Source: datacenterdynamics
