Data Center Decommissioning in Montreal

Montreal is home to Mila, the Quebec artificial intelligence institute, which traces its origin to a deep learning research lab started in 1993. The Montreal Exchange, a derivatives exchange located in Montreal, trades futures contracts and options on equities, indices, currencies, ETFs, energy and interest rates. The Montreal Internet Exchange (QIX) was originally created in 1995 by RISQ, the Quebec research network, and was incorporated in 2013 as a not-for-profit exchange. Equipment that has served workloads in a city like this eventually reaches the end of its life, and it has to leave the rack in an orderly way. Cologix MTL3 stands on Rene Levesque West in Montreal. Reboot Monkey works inside data centres that other companies own and run, so a decommissioning job here is carried out in the customer's own rack space, under the site rules of the operator. Reboot Monkey is not a hosting company and does not own the building, which keeps the work independent of any one facility.

Data centres in Montreal, ordered by the number of networks present:

Data center decommissioning is the removal and disposal of retired hardware. In Montreal, the scope covers servers, switches, storage arrays, and their cabling and rail kits. The work follows a fixed sequence that gives the customer a record they can reconcile against their own books.

A decommissioning project rarely stands alone. Hardware often has to be moved to another room or facility first, and storage that holds data has to be handled as part of IT asset disposition (ITAD), which covers data wiping, on-site shredding or degaussing, collection and transport, and resale or buyback quoted case by case. Reboot Monkey staff process this work either in a partner's processing facility or on the customer's site, so one party stays accountable from the first rack inspection to the last item collected. The same engineers also carry out server migration, rack and stack, remote hands and smart hands work, which means a customer who is emptying one cage and filling another does not have to coordinate separate suppliers. The facility operator owns and runs the building, including its power, cooling and access policy, and Reboot Monkey engineers work under the operator's site rules. For every customer site, a second, briefed Reboot Monkey engineer is named as backup. Prices are quoted on request and depend on the customer and the size of the job.

These terms apply in every facility in Montreal where Reboot Monkey engineers work.

The data centres we work in hold their own certifications, such as ISO/IEC 27001 and ISO 9001. Ask us for the certificate of your site.

Customers with equipment in more than one Canadian city can plan their exits as a single programme. The same recording of serial numbers, asset tags and rack positions applies in every location, which makes consolidated reporting simpler. For a second site in Ontario, see Data Center Decommissioning in Toronto (/en/data-center-decommissioning/canada/toronto/). As of 2026, Reboot Monkey's field engineers work in 190 countries and more than 400 locations.

Retiring equipment often goes hand in hand with placing new equipment. Customers who are moving workloads out of an old footprint and into new rack space can arrange the incoming side separately, through Colocation in Montreal, while the outgoing hardware is removed and logged. Reboot Monkey also sells the network for the rack: it orders the cross connects and carrier circuits from the facility operator and the carriers present in the facility, and Reboot Monkey engineers install and patch the cabling in the customer's rack. When the new environment is live, hardware monitoring by the Reboot Monkey NOC covers the customer's servers and network equipment.