Documents released from the Greater London Authority today (http://bit.ly/X7eJVN ) confirm that Telehouse has secured two plots of land right next door to their long established Docklands campus on East India Dock Road and Coriander Avenue. Securing yet further capacity expansion for the long term – the two plots are highlighted on the aerial image [...]
euNetworks Group Limited (SGX: H23.SI), a pan-European bandwidth infrastructure provider, announced it has connected up London’s newest addition to the data centre market. Connectivity services from euNetworks will be available when Volta’s data centre becomes operational early in 2013. Today euNetworks serves the London market with scalable bandwidth connections. Companies range from the tech and [...]
Interesting to see today’s news that Pulsant has acquired Edinburgh’s Scolocate for £26m, so building on Lumison’s longstanding presence in the Scottish capital.Scolocate has been majority owned by The Royal Bank of Scotland since 2002 following a financial restructuring. Scolocate History Scolocate is an important regional hub facility in the UK data centre market. Having [...]
Wholesale data centre operator Global Swtich has announced a new 35,000 sq m (375,ooo sq ft) or 45MVA data centre facility on the Tseung Kwan O (TKO) Industrial Estate in Hong Kong.Development will commence in 2013 with the first phase of capacity targetted for use in Q1 2015. Adding a new wholesale offering to Hong [...]
I wasn’t able to post a comment when I saw last week’s press release (http://bit.ly/TC5SZG ) from respected telecoms industry analysts Telegeography as I was at the Eco Data Centre Summit in Nuremberg (and what a good event that was).However, I thought it was most interesting to at last see one of the analysts present a [...]
UK Wholesale data centre sector update – January 2012 summary The recent 4.3MW deal by CWW with Infinity was a rare large scale leasehold deal for the only part of the UK data centre market that has been struggling over the past few years. Yet despite the widely acknowledged challenges facing the wholesale data centre sector [...]
Interesting to see Newport (Wales) based Next Generation Data announce a second “colocation” hall yesterday (http://bit.ly/S1nkvE ).NGD have just released another hall to accommodate some 138 cabinets, so about 4000 sq ft in total and apparently they’ve already sold some 60-70 cabinets in their first hall dedicated to individual rack sales. Rather than selling directly [...]
We were able to make our first visit to the new Datum Data Centre on the Cody Technology Park, home of defence contractor Qinetiq and located adjacent to the historic Farnborough airfield.Needless to say one of the first things you are aware of on site is the overall level of security, with the whole campus [...]
Data centre real estate agents CBRE have released their authoritative second quarter European data centre industry overview.As usual it’s really quite a detailed read; the full report is available here: http://bit.ly/NLkDYf. However, I’m pleased to advise the report this quarter includes a guest column by Colo-X on colocation pricing on pages 13 and 14!! Key highlights [...]
Telehouse parent KDDI have announced a USD$140m investment into new data centre facilities in Beijing, Hong Kong and Taiwan. The Telehouse branded Beijing data centre is expected to open in December 2012, offering a total floor area of 25,000 sq m and is located in the Technological Development Area (BDA). Telehouse have also announced that [...]