Pulsant Reading East SE-4

Colo-X analysis

The Pulsant Reading East data centre was previously owned and operated by Reading-based hosting provider Dedipower. Dedipower had built their first colocation facility on the other side of Reading in the ground floor of their office building prior to opening this much larger site in 2007. Dedipower was then acquired by Pulsant in 2011.

Pulsant Reading East now forms one of a string of 12 data centres across the country that Pulsant operate, from Edinburgh down to Croydon, as Pulsant seek to reposition themselves as one of the UK’s “edge” operators. The site is one of five Pulsant data centres that are under 1MW of IT load. Pulsant’s Reading South data centre (formerly Amito, acquired in 2022) is significantly larger at just under 4MW of capacity, whilst Pulsant’s Maidenhead site is only slightly bigger and located some 15 miles to the east.

Pulsant Reading East SE-4 facility description

This Pulsant facility is a single-storey light industrial building. The data centre suite occupies a large single hall offering 9,000 sq ft in total and housing just over 300 cabinets, at a power density of 16A or 3.5kW per cabinet, offering just under 1MW of total IT load.

Power and cooling are built to an N+1 design philosophy. Connectivity is provided by Pulsant’s own ring connecting their other Reading data centre to Docklands, incuding Equinix Slough, Telehouse North and East.

Pulsant now operate 12 data centres across the UK, ranging in size from 200kW to nearly 4MW and providing some 20MW of capacity in total. The company is making much of their focus on “edge” colocation.  Pulsant’s Reading East site is one of five Pulsant data centres that are under 1MW of IT load.

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