Data Centres Across British Columbia - Vancouver and Kelowna, KEL

Yes. Hut 8 Canada operates colocation facilities at multiple locations across British Columbia, including downtown Vancouver and Kelowna in the Okanagan Valley.

The Kelowna facility serves organisations in BC's interior and offers a natural geographic diversity option for businesses that need their disaster recovery or secondary infrastructure separated from their primary Vancouver environment. Both facilities are Canadian-owned, powered by BC Hydro clean hydroelectric energy, and subject to Canadian data residency law. Many clients use both sites together as an active-active or primary/DR configuration within a single BC data sovereignty framework.

We operate in the Okanagan because British Columbia is not just Vancouver. The interior of BC; Kelowna, Vernon, Kamloops, and the surrounding region, has a substantial and growing technology sector, a significant agri-tech and natural resources economy, and a large concentration of healthcare organisations. These organisations deserve access to enterprise-grade, Canadian-sovereign colocation infrastructure that serves their specific geography.

The most common reason clients use both facilities together is geographic redundancy. Running production workloads in Vancouver and disaster recovery or backup infrastructure in Kelowna; with both under the same Canadian ownership, the same compliance framework, and the same service team; gives you a genuinely BC-sovereign, geographically diverse infrastructure strategy that requires no sovereignty exception for the secondary site.

Our Vancouver and Kelowna facilities serve organisations across all industries operating in British Columbia and beyond. Our most common client sectors include:

• Technology companies and SaaS businesses: Vancouver's tech ecosystem is one of Canada's most dynamic. We serve growth-stage startups through to established enterprise software businesses that need Canadian-sovereign infrastructure they can reference to enterprise clients.
• Natural resources: Mining, forestry, energy, and agribusiness companies operating across BC with mission-critical operational technology and enterprise IT.
• Healthcare: Clinics, health authorities, digital health companies, and healthcare IT organisations subject to BC PIPA's requirements for personal health data.
• Legal and professional services: Law firms, accounting firms, and consulting organisations in Vancouver handling client-privileged and confidential information.
• E-commerce and media: Businesses serving BC and Pacific Rim markets who benefit from Vancouver's trans-Pacific network connectivity and low carbon footprint.
• Government contractors: Federal and provincial contractors seeking PBMM-compatible, Canadian-owned infrastructure in BC.

The Vancouver Internet Exchange (VANIX) is British Columbia's primary Internet Exchange Point — a neutral facility where networks, ISPs, content providers, and enterprises interconnect directly, rather than routing traffic through third-party transit providers.

For organisations colocating in Vancouver, VANIX connectivity provides several practical advantages: lower network latency (traffic between peering parties does not need to traverse external networks), reduced bandwidth costs compared to purchasing transit from a single carrier, improved routing resilience, and access to a diverse ecosystem of Pacific Rim-facing networks.

Our Vancouver facilities maintain carrier-neutral connectivity with access to multiple carriers and to VANIX, ensuring that your network design is not constrained by a single carrier relationship.

For BC-based businesses, Vancouver colocation provides several advantages over locating infrastructure in Toronto:

Latency. For users, customers, and operational systems primarily located in BC, Western Canada, or the Pacific Rim, Vancouver-based infrastructure will deliver lower network latency than Toronto-based infrastructure. The difference is measurable and matters for real-time applications, trading systems, and user-facing platforms.

Compliance jurisdiction. BC PIPA applies to organisations operating in BC. Housing your data in a BC-based, Canadian-owned facility provides the cleanest possible compliance posture — no inter-provincial transfer considerations, and no foreign jurisdiction exposure.

Pacific Rim connectivity. Vancouver's proximity to trans-Pacific submarine cable landing points and its position as Canada's primary gateway to Asia-Pacific networks is a structural advantage that Toronto cannot replicate. If your business has meaningful APAC operations or traffic, this matters significantly.

Clean energy reporting. BC's near-zero-carbon grid is meaningfully cleaner than Ontario's, which still has a gas component. For Scope 2 reporting, the BC advantage is material.

Yes. Hut 8 Canada's infrastructure platform integrates colocation with private cloud, backup, and disaster recovery services — all under one roof, governed by Canadian law, and supported by the same account team.

Hut 8 Restore, our backup and data recovery service, provides secure, Canadian-based backup and recovery infrastructure. For organisations using our Vancouver colocation facility as their primary environment, Hut 8 Restore in Kelowna provides a geographically separate, Canadian-sovereign disaster recovery site — without introducing a different provider, a different compliance framework, or a different service relationship.

We can design integrated colocation + DR solutions across our BC facilities, or integrate with your existing cloud environments where appropriate. The key distinguishing feature is that the entire infrastructure stack — primary colocation, backup, and recovery — remains under Canadian ownership and Canadian law throughout.

Yes. We regularly assist clients in transitioning from other BC colocation providers, including migrations from US-owned facilities where the primary driver is data sovereignty or compliance.

A typical migration involves:

1. A pre-migration environment documentation session with your IT team and our onboarding team — inventory, dependencies, network configuration, and maintenance windows
2. Pre-staging of rack space, power, and connectivity at the Hut 8 Canada facility before any equipment moves
3. A phased cut-over approach that maintains your existing environment as a live fallback until the new environment is confirmed stable
4. Post-migration documentation update and first quarterly business review

Migrations from US-owned providers specifically for sovereignty reasons are a category we have experience managing — including the compliance documentation required to demonstrate to BC PIPA officers that the transition addressed the identified jurisdictional risk.