Campus · Evidence reviewed 2026-10-06
SPUR Waterloo campus data centre
SPUR Innovation Centre · Waterloo, Ontario
Research record, not a building count. Campus and phase overlap may exist; do not add capacity values. Access dates do not establish fresh commissioning.
Identity and map provenance
- Name: SPUR Innovation Centre
- Operator: SPUR Innovation Centre
- Province: SPUR Innovation Centre
- City: SPUR Innovation Centre
- Record kind: SPUR Innovation Centre
- Disposition: SPUR Innovation Centre
City reference only; not the facility. Derived city center, rounded to four decimals. The marker is not a building, entrance, campus or parcel location. GeoNames 6176823 · CC BY 4.0
Lifecycle
SPUR describes its Waterloo campus data centre as operating. The statement is undated and is not an independent commissioning record.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Facility
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Facility or project lifecycle
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre
Location
ReportedSPUR identifies the project as a four-building former BlackBerry headquarters campus in Waterloo, Ontario.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Campus
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Published location reference
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre
Capacity
ReportedSPUR reports 20 MW of campus power in use/available now; the page does not define this as usable IT capacity.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Campus
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Capacity at stated basis and scope
- Quantity type
- Unspecified power
- Basis
- operator-reported campus power; IT/utility basis unspecified
- Reported quantity
- 20 MW
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre
Capacity
PlannedSPUR reports an additional 20 MW committed expansion, without supplying the underlying utility contract or commissioning evidence.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Campus
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Capacity at stated basis and scope
- Quantity type
- Unspecified power
- Basis
- operator-reported committed expansion; not commissioned IT
- Reported quantity
- 20 MW
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre
Cooling
ReportedSPUR describes free-air and liquid cooling with heat reuse in colocated growing spaces; this is an operator claim, not an as-built audit.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Campus
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Cooling system at stated scope
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre
Hardware
ReportedSPUR states that B300 SXM6 nodes are racked and serving customers in Waterloo, with eight GPUs per node. It does not disclose a fleet total.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Waterloo b300 nodes
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Hardware at stated scope
- Reported quantity
- 8 GPUs_per_node
- Compute - NVIDIA B300, GLM 5.3, sovereign Canadian GPUs - SPUR Innovation · SPUR Innovation Centre
Ownership
ReportedSPUR reports owning and operating the former BlackBerry campus acquired in 2025; the titleholding entity is not specified.
- Evidence date
- Undated source
- Checked
- 2026-10-05
- Scope
- Campus
- Evidence type
- Reported
- Status describes
- Ownership operator or developer relationship
- SPUR Campus Data Center · SPUR Innovation Centre