OVHcloud US announced its parent company's continued international expansion with the opening of a second Canadian site (the Group's 42nd data center), supported by a long-term investment of CAD 145 million. Located in Cambridge, Ontario, the OVHcloud data center is in the heart of one of North America's most dynamic innovation clusters, the perfect location for providing trusted cloud solutions meeting the heightened demands of Canadian and international businesses in terms of performance, resilience, and data governance. The new Toronto data center, like other global OVHcloud data centers, will be accessible to OVHcloud US customers and will deliver improved latency compared to the existing OVHcloud data center near Montreal and the OVHcloud US data center in Vint Hill, Virginia.

This data center opening continues to showcase OVHcloud's momentum in the U.S. and North American markets. A global player and European leader in cloud computing, OVHcloud has been established in Canada since 2011, where it employs 250 people and operates 90,000 servers hosted in one of the industry's most eco-responsible data centers, located on Montreal'sSouth Shore. OVHcloud is opening its first site in Ontario, supported by a CAD 145 million investment over the next 8 years, to support the growth and needs of its customers within a framework of extended trust.

Dedicated to the development of its new data center and to the industrial innovations that are the hallmark of the trusted cloud leader, this investment includes, in its first phase, the hiring of a number of qualified talents. Located in the Ascent TOR1 hyperscale development, this new data center has a surface area of 1,000 m2, a capacity of 10,000 servers and 2MW of power. The OVHcloud Connect solution, which enables 100% private and highly resilient interconnection (SLA of 99.99%) of its on-prem infrastructure with the OVHcloud network.

And, of course, emblematic (and free) OVHcloud services, such as the vRack private network, which connects services between several OVHcloud data center, or Anti-DDoS to protect infrastructures against computer attacks. In 2024, the Private Cloud solution leveraging VMware by Broadcom will be added, offering an additional option for companies wishing to boost their level of resilience by activating Veeam or Zerto virtualized solutions in a 100% dedicated environment. In a move towards regional integration similar to what it has been doing in Quebec for over 10 years, OVHcloud is committed to stimulating innovation and helping to build a trusted digital ecosystem in the Waterloo region - which includes the cities of Waterloo, Cambridge, and Kitchener.

This region is the entrepreneurial heart of the country, and together with Toronto forms an internationally renowned innovation corridor, the second largest technology hub in North America after Silicon Valley, and one of the world's top 20 startup ecosystems. As such, start-ups' appetite for cloud computing will naturally find refuge in the dedicated startup program that OVHcloud makes available to support innovation. Open to all, it offers selected startups up to $100,000 in infrastructure credits and personalized support based on open, reversible, and interoperable cloud solutions. Finally, OVHcloud's commitment to sustainability is reflected positively in Ontario, which is over 90% powered by low-carbon energy sources.

Its integrated industrial model and proprietary liquid cooling technology have enabled it to achieve some of the best energy efficiency ratings in the industry. OVHcloud is also the only cloud provider to offer its customers the opportunity to measure the carbon footprint of their cloud services, due to a carbon calculator that analyzes the entire lifecycle of their infrastructure, from manufacturing to operation (scope 1-2-3).