How is this affected by the case between Microsoft and the US Justice department regarding U.S. warrants for data stored on foreign servers? (See: http://europe.newsweek.com/does-us-warrant-apply-data-stored...)
OVH is also near Montreal, in Beauharnois next to a large (1900 MW) run-of-the-river hydro plant.
Quebec has cheap hydro power and a cool climate which are probably more important factors.
This allows those companies to use AWS rather than moving over to local hosting/compute/etc providers, and personally I have found the domestic hosting environment to be quite poor.
This is a great day for Canadian developers.
Canadian companies are not required to keep data in Canada - http://blog.privacylawyer.ca/2011/04/cloud-computing-and-pri...