Digital Realty: London LGW16

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Operational

Fully operational facility

London

Metro
England

Country
United Kingdom

Country
Western Europe

Region
Europe

Region
EMEA

Region

Digital Realty: London LGW16

Short Code: LGW16

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Total Building Size

Total Power

Digital Realty’s Crawley Unit 2 is the second building on the Crawley Campus – a purpose-built site for the London market. It is the second building to be built on the 16-acre Crawley campus and offers a variety of solutions to fit all business requirements. Designed to the highest energy efficiency, all power procured is 100% green. 132kV across the campus provides high reliability and a low cost of power for our customers.

The significant power availability (72MVA) provides customers with plenty of room to grow. There are diverse fibre routes available to metro connectivity hubs and long haul European fibre link

Facility

• Total building size 10,140m (109,146ft )
• Net customer space – 5,000m (53,000ft )
• 4x data halls
• High-density capacity
• Maximum floor load capacity 12KNm
• Maximum raised access floor height 800mm
• Raised floor to ceiling height 4m
• Goods lift maximum load 1.6t
• Entrance lobby
• Loading bay
• Secured storage area

Map and Nearby Locations

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Digital Realty Trust Sites

Nearby Facilities

Sites within 15 miles of Digital Realty: London LGW16

Distance	Site	About
0.08 miles	Rackspace London LON5	The Rackspace LON5 data center is located at Unit 1 Power Avenue in Crawley, UK. The facility spans 130,000 sq ft, with 71,106.39 sq ft dedicated to raised floor space for colocation.
0.12 miles	Digital Realty: London LGW15
0.22 miles	Stellanor: Gatwick	The facility was previously known as the Redcentric Gatwick Data Centre (and before that, 4D Gatwick).
8.19 miles	Redhill DC2	The site was previously operated by Digital Realty as LGW11. In 2024, Digital Realty sold its Redhill campus for £64 million ($80m).
8.20 miles	Redhill DC Campus	Situated in Surrey’s Foxboro Business Park, this 7.8-acre campus spans over 160,000 sq ft (14,865 sqm) across three buildings, with a reported development value of £100 million ($124.9m).
8.20 miles	LexisNexis Redhill UK
8.21 miles	Redhill DC3	The site was previously operated by Digital Realty as LGW12. In 2024, Digital Realty sold its Redhill campus for £64 million ($80m).
15.67 miles	Pulsant: Croydon LN–1
17.24 miles	Digital Realty: London (Chessington) LHR13	The 50,000 sq ft technical Tier III+ rated Chessington facility has five data halls each of about 1,000 sq m and with 1,440kW Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) capacity
17.65 miles	DRT London (Croydon)
17.72 miles	CapitaLand: Croydon	Croydon is a two-storey colocation data centre located 19 km south of Central London on the Prologis industrial estate.
18.94 miles	Smallworld: Guildford
19.80 miles	Level3 Tunbridge Wells
19.92 miles	Stellanor: Byfleet	The Stellanor Byfleet Data Center was acquired by Stellanor Datacenters (backed by DWS) from Redcentric in October 2025.

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Unit 1 on Power Way is in the background

DRT's Crawley Unit 2 on Connect Way is in the foreground

Source: DRT

Unit 1 on Power Way is in the background

Operating Company

Digital Realty Trust is a data center public REIT that owns and operates facilities in the United States and Europe. The company provides colocation and interconnection services and develops large multi‑tenant data centers for enterprise and cloud customers.

Its European platform expanded through the combination with Interxion, and through the purchase of European sites divested by Equinix following Equinix’s acquisition of TelecityGroup. The Telx acquisition added a U.S. interconnection and colocation business to Digital Realty’s portfolio.

Digital Realty Trust History:

In March 2020 completed the combination with Interxion, expanding its European platform.
In September 2017 completed the merger with DuPont Fabros Technology.
In July 2016 acquired eight European data centers from Equinix that were divested as part of Equinix’s TelecityGroup acquisition.
In October 2015 completed the acquisition of Telx.
On October 28, 2004 priced its initial public offering at 12 dollars per share.

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