National Post/ Toronto December 20, 2016;
Internet giant Amazon Web Services has opened a cluster of data centres near Montréal due to the ready availability and cost of hydro-electric power in Québec...( )...The announcement is a boon to Québec, which now finds itself at the forefront of cloud computing nationally. It’s an industry the province has been pursuing heavily, using its cheap hydro electricity as a prime attractant...( )...It already secured one of the world’s largest data centres from French cloud computing giant OVH in 2013. That investment led to OVH setting up its North American research and development labs in the province in 2016...( )...IBM, Bell Canada, Cogeco Data Services and many others have also recently opened data centres in the province.
Amazon Web Services is the largest provider of cloud computing services in the world, accounting for more than 30 per cent of the global market.