{"entity":{"id":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","slug":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","name":"Digital Realty · Toronto Star conversion","kind":"facility","countryCodes":["CA"],"region":"North America","summary":"Historical facility case with an unresolved municipal label.","description":"Plan Group dates its electrical and technology work to 2018 and labels the former printing-plant project Markham, Ontario. The possible correspondence with TOR1 in Vaughan is not asserted as a documented identity.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group","fa-src-digital-realty-ellisdon","fa-src-digital-realty-tor1"],"theme":"infrastructure","origin":"global","reviewedAt":"2026-09-28"},"connections":[{"id":"fa-digital-realty-case-client","sourceId":"digital-realty","targetId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","label":"Operator named in historical case","kind":"facility_client","description":"The contractor names Digital Realty. Exact correspondence with the current operator catalogue remains unresolved.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group"],"recordIds":[],"status":"documented","date":null,"theme":"infrastructure"},{"id":"fa-digital-realty-installations","sourceId":"plan-group","targetId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","label":"Electrical and technology installation","kind":"electrical_construction","description":"Work completed in 2018 includes high-voltage/distribution systems, UPS, fire alarm, security and IT infrastructure.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group"],"recordIds":[],"status":"documented","date":null,"theme":"infrastructure"},{"id":"fa-digital-realty-ellisdon","sourceId":"ellisdon","targetId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","label":"Jointly named construction client","kind":"project_client","description":"Plan Group lists EllisDon/Hitt jointly as its client. The source does not allocate each company’s individual scope.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group"],"recordIds":[],"status":"documented","date":null,"theme":"infrastructure"},{"id":"fa-digital-realty-hitt-contracting","sourceId":"hitt-contracting","targetId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","label":"Jointly named construction client","kind":"project_client","description":"Plan Group lists EllisDon/Hitt jointly as its client. The source does not allocate each company’s individual scope.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group"],"recordIds":[],"status":"documented","date":null,"theme":"infrastructure"},{"id":"fa-location-digital-realty-markham-data-centre","sourceId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","targetId":"country-ca","label":"Physical project location","kind":"located_in","description":"Geographic relationship only; it does not establish government funding, military use or a political alliance.","sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group"],"recordIds":[],"status":"documented","date":null,"theme":"infrastructure"},{"id":"proposal-facility-levy-digital-realty-markham-data-centre","sourceId":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","targetId":"covered-ai-data-center-sector","label":"Proposed data-center levy scope","description":"This named data-center facility falls within the sector addressed by the independent regeneration proposal. The liable legal entity, assessment basis and collection jurisdiction remain policy questions; this is not an enacted obligation or a payment.","kind":"proposed_levy_coverage","status":"proposal","sourceIds":[],"recordIds":[],"date":null,"theme":"regeneration"}],"finance":[],"sources":[{"id":"fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group","title":"Digital Realty Data Centre: Toronto Star conversion","url":"https://www.plan-group.com/project/digital-realty-data-centre","publisher":"Plan Group","publishedAt":null,"accessedAt":"2026-09-28","kind":"primary_project_record","note":"Historical electrical and technology scope, completed 2018; names EllisDon/Hitt as client. The page labels the location Markham; this conflicts with a possible TOR1 identification and is retained as an unresolved location/identifier gap."},{"id":"fa-src-digital-realty-ellisdon","title":"Digital Realty TOR1: newspaper-plant conversion","url":"https://www.ellisdon.com/project/digital-realty-tor1-data-center","publisher":"EllisDon","publishedAt":null,"accessedAt":"2026-09-28","kind":"primary_project_record","note":"Comparison evidence for the unresolved project-identity gap. It names TOR1 and a former newspaper facility, but is not used to assert that Plan Group's differently located record is definitively the same site."},{"id":"fa-src-digital-realty-tor1","title":"TOR1 Data Center: 1 Century Place, Vaughan","url":"https://www.digitalrealty.com/data-centers/americas/toronto/tor1","publisher":"Digital Realty","publishedAt":null,"accessedAt":"2026-09-28","kind":"primary_project_record","note":"Current operator directory identifies TOR1 in Vaughan. A current site listing does not resolve the conflicting Markham label in the selected contractor case."}],"neighbors":[{"id":"covered-ai-data-center-sector","slug":"covered-ai-data-center-sector","name":"AI companies & data-center operators","kind":"policy"},{"id":"country-ca","slug":"country-ca","name":"Canada","kind":"country"},{"id":"digital-realty","slug":"digital-realty","name":"Digital Realty","kind":"company"},{"id":"plan-group","slug":"plan-group","name":"Plan Group","kind":"contractor"},{"id":"ellisdon","slug":"ellisdon","name":"EllisDon","kind":"contractor"},{"id":"hitt-contracting","slug":"hitt-contracting","name":"HITT Contracting","kind":"contractor"},{"id":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","slug":"digital-realty-markham-data-centre","name":"Digital Realty · Toronto Star conversion","kind":"facility"}],"gaps":[{"id":"fa-digital-realty-identity","title":"Resolve the Ontario conversion’s conflicting municipal label","description":"Plan Group labels its Toronto Star conversion Markham. EllisDon describes TOR1 as a newspaper conversion, while Digital Realty places TOR1 in Vaughan. The selected historical project remains a separate case identifier until that mismatch is resolved.","entityIds":["digital-realty-markham-data-centre","digital-realty","plan-group"],"sourceIds":["fa-src-digital-realty-plan-group","fa-src-digital-realty-ellisdon","fa-src-digital-realty-tor1"],"nextStep":"Obtain the original project address, permit or contractor clarification before merging with a current TOR1 facility record. Country-level location is retained; no exact address is assigned."}],"snapshotDate":"2026-09-28"}