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simonebrunozzi
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AWS announces new region in Canada
You need proximity to a ton of people to become the Datacenter capital; I doubt Montreal qualifies.
smathieu
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Montreal is the 19th largest metropolitan area in North America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_North_American_metropo...
It's also very close to the American North East for data transfer...
ficklepickle
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600km(~360 miles) by road from NYC... Could possibly be worthwhile if the energy is significantly cheaper*
* Pure speculation on my part
dghughes
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I think the GTA has as many people ~8 million as all of Quebec ~8 million.
betaby
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No, GTA is ~6M and Greater Montreal ~4 GTA is not that big in terms of population and very sparse comparable with other big metros.
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