The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, Oct. 16, edition that Canada's cyber intelligence agency plans to build a new datacentre in the Ottawa area, costing up to $1.85-billion. The Globe's Bill Curry and Mercedes Stephenson write that this facility will meet the growing operational demands of the Communications Security Establishment, supporting the government's goal of onshoring sovereign data systems. Ottawa has issued an advance procurement notice indicating plans to post a contracting opportunity early next year for a new datacentre in the National Capital Region. The new datacentre is planned to be a 60-megawatt facility, placing it among the country's larger data centres. For context, Meta announced in July that it plans to spend $13-billion on a 1 gigawatt datacentre facility north of Edmonton. The need for another datacentre has been on CSE's radar for some time. The agency's capabilities and computing needs have increased in the face of a rapidly changing technological landscape and the proliferation of threats. CSE's current datacentre was designed over 15 years ago. The notice does not specify which department would use the datacentre, but a CSE spokesman said it will be for the agency's use.