Status: Operational / Strategic High-Density Node | Location: 900 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1, Canada
The Hut 8 Vancouver Vault (VAN1) is a high-security, ultra-hardened enterprise colocation and cloud computing facility located at 900 W Hastings St in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. The facility occupies a historically significant subterranean structure originally constructed as a vault for the Bank of Canada to safeguard gold and cash reserves, providing an exceptionally robust physical security foundation for modern digital infrastructure. Its hardened construction includes 28-inch steel-reinforced concrete walls, 1-meter-thick ceilings, and 2-meter-thick floors, creating a highly resilient environment for mission-critical IT equipment and sensitive enterprise workloads. The facility is designed to support organizations requiring secure colocation, cloud computing, network connectivity, and protected infrastructure within Vancouver’s central business district. Its downtown location places the facility close to major financial institutions, technology companies, enterprises, telecommunications networks, and commercial customers, enabling efficient connectivity across the Vancouver metropolitan area and wider Pacific Northwest. The combination of hardened physical infrastructure and modern digital capabilities makes VAN1 particularly suited to customers with stringent security, reliability, and business continuity requirements. The facility can accommodate enterprise computing environments, cloud-connected workloads, networking equipment, and other mission-critical systems while leveraging Vancouver’s established telecommunications ecosystem. Its transformation from a financial security vault into a modern data center also illustrates how specialized legacy infrastructure can be repurposed to meet the requirements of the digital economy. By combining historical physical security characteristics with contemporary colocation and cloud capabilities, the Hut 8 Vancouver Vault provides a distinctive infrastructure platform for enterprises seeking highly secure digital environments in one of Western Canada’s major technology and business centers.
| Field | Value |
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| Project Name | Hut 8 | Vancouver Vault | 1MW | Downtown BC | High-Security Colocation |
| Location | 900 W Hastings St, Vancouver, BC V6C 1E1, Canada |
| Status | Operational / Strategic High-Density Node |
| Project Type | Hardened Banking Vault Retrofit / Enterprise & High-Density Colocation |
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| City Name | Vancouver |
| Population | Approximately 662,000 |
| Urban Agglomeration | Approximately 3.0 million |
| Economic Profile | 🔒 Detailed city intelligence available to subscribers |
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