Telehouse operates five data centers in London, four at its Docklands campus in East London, consisting of Telehouse North (opened 1990), Telehouse East (opened 1999), Telehouse West (opened 2010), and Telehouse North Two (opened in 2016.)
Critical to London’s Financial industry, Equinix’s collection of non-contigous data cetners in Slough function as a virtual campus via innerduct paths that connect them. The campus is one of the largest data centres in London.
LD9 is located in West London's Park Royal campus. The data centre was a Telecity managed facility before Equinix acquired Telecity in July 2016.
The datacenter first opened in 2014 by Infinity SDC, but in 2015 VIRTUS acquired the site which is now called London 3. London3 is the closest (non-Equinix) facilities to Equinix's LD4 making it an option to be part of the financial trading ecosystem, but colocated outside of Equinix.
This site was formerly a Telecity site that was acquired by Equinix (January 2016) and subsequently sold to Digital Realty Trust (July 2016.)
The United Kingdom is an island nation in northwestern Europe is made up of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
The London metro region is by far the largest data centre market in the UK and consists of several submarkets. The London Docklands
is a network dense interconnection and peering market.Slough, 32 km to the West of London has a financial trading ecosystem.
The Next Generation Data Newport in Wales is a massive building that can scale to support up to 180 megawatts of power and 750,000 sqft of data centre space.
| Gross SqFt | Gross SqFt | Power (MW) | Power (MW) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vantage Cardiff CWL1 | 225,000 | 72.00 | ||
| VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus | 258,333 | 67.00 | ||
| Global Switch London Docklands Campus | 53.37 | |||
| Infinity Romford North and South | 167,917 | 43.20 | ||
| Telehouse London Docklands (North, East, West) | 786,000 | 40.00 | ||
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Nov 25, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | United Kingdom
UK data center company Asanti has been acquired by Investment firm Invesis. Asanti has also acquired five data center facilities from Daisy Group. The five data centers are located in Reading, Hamilton, Manchester, Farnborough, and Birstall. The five facilities have a capacity of over 1,500 ra...
Nov 21, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | London
Leading environmental group CPRE has argued that Digital Reef's plans to build Europe's "largest data center" will cause "massive environmental damage" and has vowed to fight its development. As previously covered by Baxtel, the £5.3 billion ($5.97bn) project is to be built on land in North Oc...
Nov 10, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | Manchester
According to reports, Manchester City Council is looking to redevelop a former Barclays data center from the 1970s and bring it back into service. Currently, the council is looking for public feedback on its regeneration proposals for Wythenshawe town center, having already completed the acqui...
Nov 08, 2022 | Posted by MadalineDunn | London
According to Havering Council, it is negotiating with a private sector developer, Digital Reef, to build a huge data center campus in the eastern London Borough of Havering. The London Data Freeport project would reportedly be 'Europe's largest data center' sitting on a site of 175 hectares. C...
Nov 04, 2022 | Posted by Abdul-Rahman Oladimeji | London: Slough
Slough Council has agreed to turn a former paint factory zoned for residential development into a data center. The Council decided to sell the site to an unnamed data center developer. Per council documents, the Slough Council acquired the site in February 2021 from Panattoni for £38.5 million...
CushWake: Brexit Implications for the UK Data Centre Market (2017)
