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DICE Canada 2025 Recap: Smarter Compute, Real Infrastructure Solutions

June 18, 2025

This year’s Data Centre Investment & Expo (DICE) in Toronto made one thing abundantly clear: AI is reshaping the data centre landscape faster than infrastructure can keep up. Demand is exploding, but so are the constraints. Power shortages, grid delays, and rigid hyperscaler contracts are all pushing organizations to rethink how, where, and with whom they scale their infrastructure.

At 639Cloud, we’re already addressing the challenges most teams are just starting to wrestle with; from modular compute that actually fits today’s workloads to strategic edge deployments that don’t require months of procurement red tape.

What We Took Away from DICE

AI is pushing past traditional capacity models.


From training to inference, workloads aren’t just getting heavier, they’re getting more fragmented and location-specific. Enterprises don’t just need more compute; they need compute that’s fast, local, scalable, and available when the cloud can’t deliver.

Not all demand is hyperscale.


There was a strong emphasis on right-sizing infrastructure for actual business needs, from VMs to containerized apps to GPU-intensive environments. The trend is shifting away from overprovisioned racks toward agile, lean deployments. That’s where 639Cloud shines: custom compute environments without the bloat.

Power availability is now a limiting factor.


The compute conversation kept circling back to power, or the lack of it. With grid expansion lagging and diesel solutions under ESG scrutiny, the data centre industry is being forced to decouple growth from utility dependency. 639Cloud’s regional model was built for this, delivering high-performance compute closer to the edge, with infrastructure partners who understand the power landscape.

Edge deployments are going from pilot to priority.


Whether driven by latency, security, or geography, companies are expanding at the edge, not just the core. But hyperscalers still aren’t flexible enough to support edge-first thinking. 639Cloud offers tailored environments that give businesses the control and speed they need to deploy wherever the opportunity is.

Procurement is looking for alternatives.


In session after session, brokers and buyers talked about breaking out of long-term, rigid contracts that no longer serve evolving needs. 639Cloud’s model makes it easy to spin up what’s needed — without the 3-year lock-in or slow enterprise sales cycle.

What’s Next

After the panels, our team connected with engineers, brokers, and procurement leads asking the same question: How do we scale compute infrastructure without locking into outdated, inflexible models? Our answer: start with architecture that’s built to move as fast as your business. At 639Cloud, we’re rethinking cloud from the ground up, modular deployments, smarter pricing, and infrastructure that’s powered by strategy, not vendor lock-in.

Want to talk about your infrastructure goals? Let’s build the right compute stack together. Reach out here.

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