iomart plc Nottingham Data Centre

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iomart’s Nottingham data centre is one of a series of facilities built across the country in the dot-com boom by 186K Ltd and acquired by iomart in March 2007.  It offers a single data hall of around 4,000 sq ft able to accomodate nearly 200 racks.  Power per rack light by modern standards, network mostly from Iomart.  Tier2 standard, single generator.

iomart plc Nottingham facility description

Located in the heart of central Nottingham the iomart Nottingham data centre has a single ground floor data hall, with plan located within the building in fairly cramped site with only limited onsite parking.  Single 800kVA generator, dual UPS.

This site and five others were built as part of the fibre network build of Lattice PLC, who at one time ran the national gas transmission network in the UK (originally part of British Gas).  Lattice spent £450m building this network under the name 186k.  In 2002 Lattice merged with National Grid (the electricity tranmission network operator) and the network was disposed of, with the fibre assets sold to Hutchinson3G (to eventually become the start of GEO Fibre Networks) and the data centres along with the 186K name were acquired by a Leeds based internet entrepeneur, Dominic Marrocco who was the vendor to iomart in 2007.

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