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Kao Data: Manchester

Short Code: KMAN-01
Year Planned: 2026
Lot Size: 10 acres

Kao Data is developing a £350 million data center at Kenwood Point, Stockport, UK. The 25,900 sqm (279,000 sq ft) facility, powered entirely by renewable energy, is scheduled for completion in 2026.

  • The site in Kenwood Park is a brownfield, 10-acre site with a 160,100 sq ft warehouse.
  • When completed, there will be nine data halls capable of acting as an infrastructure hub for high-performance computing and artificial intelligence.

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Sites within 15 miles of Kao Data: Manchester

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1.53 miles Lunar 3
Lunar 3 offers four data halls, three IT zones, a 1,000 kg/m² floor load, 1.2 MVA DX CRAC cooling, and 2 MVA power with N+1 redundancy from two independent sources and one substation.
3.05 miles Equinix Manchester MA1
3.15 miles Equinix Manchester MA4
3.45 miles Level3 Manchester
3.49 miles ANS: MaNOC 8
3.55 miles CapitaLand: Reynolds House
3.56 miles Lunar 2
Lunar 2 in Manchester offers colocation with two data halls, 1,500 kg/m² floor load, an N+1 DX CRAC and In-Row cooling system, a 1.5 MVA incoming feed capacity and N+1 generator redundancy with 168-hour fuel capacity at full load.
3.56 miles iomart DC6 Manchester
The iomart DC6 data center in Manchester (also known as Turing House) became part of iomart's portfolio in August 2012.
3.56 miles iomart: Melbourne Turing House
3.57 miles DRT Manchester
Reynold House is a three-storey triple net powered shell data centre located 13 km from Manchester International Airport and 290 km north west of London.
3.57 miles iomart: DC7 Manchester
In 2012, iomart Group plc acquired Melbourne Server Hosting, gaining two Manchester data centers—Turing House (DC6) and Reynolds House (DC7).
3.57 miles Lunar 1
The Lunar 1 data center, located at Reynolds House in the Manchester Technopark, is an enterprise-grade colocation facility managed by Lunar Digital Solutions Ltd.
3.57 miles Equinix Manchester MA2
3.62 miles Asanti: Manchester
The Asanti Manchester data centre was acquired from Daisy Group in November 2022. The Manchester data centre offers 15,000 sq ft of secure colocation hosting space.
3.64 miles Wavenet: Manchester ServerBank
Wavenet Limited operates the ServerBank Manchester data center (also referred to as Manchester DC 13) at Bank House, Manchester, United Kingdom.
4.82 miles Nasstar: Salford
5.30 miles MSP Data Center Request Dataset
Media Stream AI (MSAI) has unveiled a £50m ($67.2m) investment to develop a state-of-the-art AI data centre, robotics lab, and production facility at Anchorage Place in Salford’s Media City.
5.43 miles Equinix Manchester MA3
5.47 miles iomart: DC13 Manchester
iomart acquired the LDeX Group in December 2018, and what was previously known as the LDeX2 Manchester site is now integrated into iomart's network as DC13.
5.57 miles Computacenter: Manchester
5.89 miles Datacentreplus: Manchester
6.22 miles AtlasEdge: MAN001
6.37 miles TeleData
6.57 miles ANS: MaNOC 5, 6 & 7
The ANS MaNOC 5, 6, and 7 complex is a high-density data center campus in Trafford Park, Manchester, comprising three interconnected buildings designed for secure colocation and managed services.
6.67 miles Pulsant: Manchester NW-1
6.76 miles ANS: MaNOC 4
ANS MaNOC 4 is a high-security, carrier-neutral data center featuring approximately 20,000 sq ft of gross space and a capacity for over 300 racks.
8.15 miles LCRDC: Manchester Core
LCRDC's Manchester data centre facility is located close to Manchester Airport’s City Enterprise Zone and is one of the best connected and well protected data centres in the UK.
8.55 miles Deep Green: Manchester DG01
Deep Green is to deploy an edge data center at the Move Urmston Leisure Center in southwest Manchester.
8.96 miles Digital L&D: Manchester, UK.
Salford City Council has approved a £250m data center at Peel Waters’ Halo West site in Eccles, Salford, northwest of Manchester.
17.52 miles Intercity: Bolton
The Intercity Technology data center in Bolton is a Tier 3 facility located at Hallmark House, Paragon Business Park.
18.34 miles Level3 Warrington

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Kao Data Campus provides state-of-the-art, carrier-neutral data centre space in the London area. Whether you need a single rack, a Technology Cell for high density computing or an entire Technology Suite, Kao offers a highly flexible, secure and location-critical facility within easy reach of central London and the City.

With ultra-low PUE (<1.2 at partial load), Kao Data Campus has been engineered for concurrent maintainability with low component count, the facility provides the assurance of high efficiency and high reliability IT services with the very highest levels of data centre uptime.

Kao’s on-demand resources offer performance lead capabilities to customers from a variety of data driven industries, from banking, media and gaming to R&D and retail. Kao Data Campus offers every customer a bespoke data centre solution for their individual requirements.

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