Shared Services Canada (SSC): EDC Borden

Located on the grounds of Canadian‑Forces‑Base Borden in Ontario, EDC Borden serves as one of SSC’s flagship enterprise data-centres designed to support the Canadian federal government’s IT infrastructure consolidation and digital-service delivery strategy. It was developed under a 25-year public-private partnership to design, build, finance, operate and maintain the facility — a cornerstone in the Government of Canada’s plan to replace ageing legacy data-centres and centralize critical infrastructure. The facility is designed for high reliability, secure operations, and greater energy efficiency, enabling SSC to retire older facilities and deliver better service continuity to Canadians.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• EDC Borden is certified to Tier III Gold (Operations & Maintenance) by the Uptime Institute for its operational resilience and strong maintenance practices.
• The facility achieved LEED Silver certification (design, construction and operations) under the Canada Green Building Council framework, and is approximately 25 % more energy-efficient than previous legacy facilities.
• Built with high-availability infrastructure: dual utility feeds, redundant power and cooling systems enabling “no planned downtime” maintenance.
• Innovative cooling and water-efficiency features: for example, the design minimises potable-water use for cooling, uses rainwater for landscaping and incorporates outside-air economisation where climate-permitting.
• Designed for scalability: the expanded facility is capable of handling up to ten times the workload of the predecessor data-centre infrastructure at the site.

🔐 Security & Compliance

• Physical and cyber-security measures are tightly integrated: only cleared staff may access controlled zones, and the facility has at least two diverse network paths connecting to external networks.
• SSC’s enterprise data-centres (including EDC Borden) are built to serve protected government workloads, designed for redundancy and disaster-resilience, and aligned to provide high availability for public-sector digital services.
• As part of SSC’s data-centre consolidation strategy, EDC Borden adheres to modern standardised hosting-services models with enterprise-grade controls and standardised architectures across departments.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• EDC Borden supports multiple network-entry paths, enabling at least two distinct connections to external networks for redundancy and fail-safe operation.
• Although specific carrier lists are not publicly detailed, the facility forms part of the Government of Canada’s enterprise hosting infrastructure, supporting federal-wide network services, applications and disaster-recovery capabilities.
• The facility’s design supports consolidation of multiple older departmental data-centres into fewer modern enterprise sites, delivering connectivity, hosting and scalability under one roof.

💼 Who It Serves

• Federal government departments and agencies requiring secure, high-availability, government-hosted IT infrastructure in Canada.
• Workloads needing enterprise-grade colocation, managed hosting or platform-service infrastructure with the backing of a government-owned facility.
• IT systems requiring disaster-recovery readiness, redundancy and data-centre consolidation as part of national-scale service delivery.
• Applications servicing Canadians (such as online government services, border security, weather forecasting) that depend on modern infrastructure, strong uptime guarantees and standardised hosting environments.