For Canadian property & asset owners
If your building, facility, or land has more than 5MW of unused electrical capacity, you're leaving significant long-term revenue on the table. Sustainium matches Canadian sites with data centre operators — and structures the deal so you benefit, at no cost to you.
Who this is for
Data centre operators across Canada are actively searching for sites with existing grid connections and available load. If any of these describe your situation, we should talk.
Facilities that have wound down or reduced operations — but still hold large utility service connections and substation infrastructure that's idle or underused.
Large rural operations with dedicated grid service, spare land, and seasonal power fluctuations. Your off-season overcapacity is a data centre's year-round opportunity.
Office parks, retail power centres, or institutional campuses where anchor tenants have left — taking their load but not the electrical infrastructure they were sized for.
Wind, solar, or hydro operators with generation that exceeds reliable offtake. Co-locating a data centre turns curtailed energy into contracted revenue without grid upgrades.
Towns and regions with economic development mandates and underutilized industrial land or legacy power infrastructure. Data centres bring jobs, tax base, and long-term anchor tenants.
Remote sites with dedicated power supply built to serve heavy operations. If the mine is winding down or operating below capacity, that infrastructure has a second life.
How it works
We do the complex work. You provide the site. No capital required from you at any stage.
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We review your power capacity, grid connection, land availability, and location. Takes one conversation and a utility bill. No consultants, no fees.
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We present your site confidentially to our network of Canadian and international data centre operators actively seeking power. We find the right fit for your size and constraints.
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We negotiate the ground lease, power purchase agreement, and revenue terms on your behalf. You retain ownership. The data centre operator finances the build.
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Once the deal closes, you receive ground lease income and energy revenue on a long-term contract. Sustainium earns a success fee from the operator — you pay nothing.
What you receive
Done right, a data centre on your site is better than a traditional tenant — longer leases, higher credit quality, and compounding value to your infrastructure.
Long-term ground lease agreements provide stable, predictable income over multi-decade terms with built-in escalation provisions — turning idle land into a durable revenue stream.
If you generate or control power supply, you receive payment under a long-term Energy Services Agreement — rates negotiated upfront and structured for predictable, indexed income.
Your existing substation, service connection, and site infrastructure — which may otherwise depreciate — becomes a valued, income-generating asset on your balance sheet.
The data centre operator funds the build. You provide the site and power. Sustainium's fee comes from the operator at deal close — your cost is zero throughout the process.
On select deals, site owners can take a minority stake in the energy infrastructure SPV rather than (or in addition to) a straight lease. We'll show you where this makes sense.
Not sure if you meet the threshold? Describe your site and we'll tell you within 48 hours. Many sites qualify that owners assume won't — particularly those with legacy manufacturing or agricultural substation connections.
Deal scale
Every site is different — but these tiers reflect the types of operators and deal structures Sustainium works with across the Canadian market.
Typically attracts retail colocation or edge computing operators seeking distributed Canadian presence. Smaller footprint, faster timeline to close — often 12–18 months from first conversation.
Attracts wholesale colocation operators and mid-tier hyperscale tenants. Build-to-suit lease structures are standard at this tier, with 20-year initial terms and multi-phase expansion rights.
Qualifies for hyperscale and AI infrastructure operators with the highest credit quality and longest lease commitments. Multi-phase development with structured phased payments and expansion options.
Deal structures, timelines, and terms vary based on site characteristics, operator type, and negotiated agreements. All figures and descriptions are illustrative.
Why Canada, why now
Canada is in the midst of a data centre boom driven by AI infrastructure demand, favourable climate for cooling, relatively clean grid power, and political stability. Toronto and Montreal are near capacity. Operators are actively scouting secondary markets — and power availability has become the single biggest constraint on new development.
For site owners, this creates a rare arbitrage window. The operators who need your power are searching right now. The sites that engage early will secure the best operators and the most favourable terms. Those who wait will negotiate from a weaker position as competition increases — or miss the window entirely as operators find alternatives.
Most Canadian property owners have no idea their site would be attractive to a data centre. Sustainium exists to change that.
"Power availability is now the primary constraint on data centre development across Canada. Sites with existing infrastructure are worth more than sites without it — and most owners don't know it."
$2.1 billion — projected size of the Canadian colocation market by 2030, growing at 7.3% annually.
2 GW of new Canadian data centre capacity is in planning right now. Most of it is delayed waiting for power access.
TransAlta, CPP Investments, and Brookfield just signed an MOU for a 1GW data centre at a legacy Alberta power site — the same model, at enormous scale.
Cooling costs are 30–40% lower in Canada than the US Sun Belt — making Canadian sites disproportionately attractive for AI infrastructure workloads.
No dedicated matchmaker currently exists in Canada for site owners with excess power above 5MW. Sustainium is building that market.
Start the conversation
Fill in what you know. You don't need precise figures — a rough sense of your power capacity and site is enough to start. We'll follow up within 48 hours with an honest assessment of whether your site is likely to attract a data centre operator.
There is no cost, no commitment, and no obligation to proceed. Our fee is paid by the data centre operator if and when a deal closes.