Datum MCR1 (former Teledata), South Manchester Data Centre

Colo-X analysis

Datum MCR1 was originally opened as Teledata until acquired by Datum in September 2022. Teledata had established a small data centre in a large mixed-use building in Wythenshawe, South Manchester since 2007 and developed a strong niche as a flexible colocation provider, ideal at looking after smaller users.

In July 2025 Datum opened MCR2 adjacent to MCR1 which at 4MW is significantly larger. Both MCR1 and 2 are essentially the same campus, with a single entry point and both sites benefit from the network ecosystem established here, including the LINX (London Internet Exchange) who opened their 4^th Manchester site here in early 2021 and the direct carrier count is now 19 networks.

With facilities averaging 4-5MW each, Datum seem to occupy an attractive niche for Colo-X users, offering modern, efficient data centres that are big enough to offer attractive commercial terms but not big enough to sell all to hyperscale users.  As a result Datum remain well suited for smaller users from a quarter rack upwards.

Datum MCR1, Delta House, South Manchester facility description

Formerly a regional office for oil major Shell, Teledata’s Delta House is located 10km to the south of central Manchester and only 2km from Manchester Airport in the suburb of Wythenshaw. The fully owned and operated facility is a mixed use 70,000 sq ft 1960’s office building with around 10,000 sq ft currently built out as data centre space supporting around 400 racks capacity at fairly low power density. The size of the building provides ample scope for to offer a combination of colocation and office accomodation to customers when requred.

At 400 racks capacity the focus is very much on retail colocation customers taking 1-2 racks, part racks (quarter and half) and the largest customer is around 50 racks or 250kW, but the operator is now poised to deliver a further 1000 racks in an adjoining building as a completely new facility, from early 2025.

Power densities are from 2kW to 4 or 5kw as standard per full rack. For power provision the building is supplied from its own 11kV sub-station and power to the rack backed up by 2(N+N) UPS and generators. A 100% SLA on power is offered. Cooling by N+1 CRAC units. FM200 fire suppression.

The site is also ideal for Disaster Recovery (DR) services and also supports a wide variety of office tenants over the six upper floors including law firms, healthcare and of course IT/hosting companies taking advantage of both office and data centre under one roof together with overall site security.

Having opened for data centre use as far back as 2007 the carrier list is now 19 networks including fibre from Zayo, EuNetworks, BT, Hibernia Atlantic (now GTT), Level3 (now Lumen), SSE, Vodafone(C+W) and VirginMedia as well as a host of smaller ISPs and networks, not forgetting LINX with some 15 ports now active here (out of some 140 across the whole of Manchester). The height of the building makes it ideal for wireless network operators with clear line of sight to central Manchester. As a result Datum MCR1 has a growing role as an “edge” data centre.

Datum MCR1 offers ISO9001, 27001 and PCI DSS accreditations.

Datum MCR2 opened in summer of 2025 and is designed to offer some 4MW or 1000 racks, so ensuring long term capacity in the campus.

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