Data centre industry news and insights

Tim Anker will be chairing a discussion at Platform UK, the only event focused solely on the UK data centre market, in London on 25 February 2026.

Digital Realty's Cloud House in Docklands offers sub-1.1 PUE and 4.5MW capacity, with competitive pricing for retail colocation users.

I was pleased to attend an open day at nLighten's Bristol BRS1 data centre and learn about the £15m investment being spent on this site.

Goswell Road data centre is no stranger to me – unlike its new owner, Stellanor Datacenters. Fortunately, Stellanor’s CEO Steve Scott and I have known each other for most of my career in this sector, so it was great to see him again.

My last visit to the vast NTT LON1 data centre in east London was pre-pandemic, and the transformation over the past five years has been more than impressive.

Custodian’s Dartford data centre, which opened in early 2022, is an impressive and still relatively new facility. I was pleased to use a recent trip to London as an excuse to take the train out to Dartford and pay it a visit.

I was interested to see Pulsant making yet another acquisition in the UK data centre market with the purchase of two data centres from SCC.

I’m especially pleased to be attending Platform UK 2025 on 6 February as it’s the only event focused solely on the UK data centre market. Will you be there? Read on for details and how to get a useful discount code.

I recently attended a series of visits in Newcastle and Manchester on behalf of a client with stringent security requirements, and looked forward to assessing what some of the key data centres in northern England have to offer.

I was so intrigued by the launch of the new Atlas Edge Leeds data centre that I made the long trek north to attend the grand opening.