Map / QC
Verified 2026-08-01
Microsoft Lévis (Charny) Datacentre
Microsoft / Charny, Lévis, QC
Construction
0 MW
announced
0 MW
energized
- Power path
- Grid
- Generation tech
- hyperscale cloud/AI (Azure Canada East expansion), hydro grid power, diesel backup generators
- Utility
- Hydro-Quebec
- Queue reference
- Not stated
- Target online
- Not stated
- Announced
- 2022-11-22
- Verification
- public_filing
- Coordinate
- 46.7382, -71.1809 (town)
Getting power in Quebec
Went from selling surplus hydro to data centres to actively pricing and gatekeeping them out.
The full Quebec record, with the route to power, the binding constraint and every dated policy event.
Sources
Former Charny golf course, purchased Nov 2021 for C$20M. Construction began April 2024; steel structure complete July 2025; civil works continuing to autumn 2026, per Microsoft's own construction-update blog -- strong primary source. Part of Microsoft's C$7.5B 'Cloud North' Quebec expansion; no site-specific MW disclosed. Also called 'YQB6'.
Other tracked projects in Quebec
- OVHcloud BHS Campus OVHcloud (OVH Group) · 120 MW · Operating
- QScale Q01 Campus QScale · 96 MW · Operating
- Vantage Quebec City Campus (QC2, incl. QC21/QC23/QC24) Vantage Data Centers · 86 MW · Construction
- Gatineau Data Hub (GDH) AVAIO Capital / Société immobilière ADAM · 50 MW · Not approved
- Bitfarms Sherbrooke – Bunker Keel Infrastructure (formerly Bitfarms Ltd.) · 48 MW · Operating
- UnitedCorp Beauharnois data centre / greenhouse project UnitedCorp · 40 MW · Announced
- eStruxture MTL-2 eStruxture Data Centers · 30 MW · Operating
- Vantage Montreal III (QC6) Vantage Data Centers · 30 MW · Operating
Last verified 2026-08-01. Corrections: sam@mccordinvestments.com