Consumers and businesses alike have been storing increasing amounts of data in the cloud in recent years, a movement that has precipitated the building of a growing number of secure, air-conditioned, server-filled “clouds” across Canada. The centres storing all that data have some very specific requirements, and they’re ones Canada happens to fulfill — from a cool climate to a low probability of political upheaval — making it a popular destination for data. Building data centres is also a natural fit for telecoms, which is why companies like BCE Inc. and Rogers...