nLighten: Bristol BRS1

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nLighten: Bristol BRS1

Short Code: BRS1

Year Built: 2022

PUE: 1.2

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Acquired in 2023 by nLighten as part of a strategic expansion into the UK market, nLighten Bristol BRS1 is a high-performance edge data center located in the Aztec West Business Park. The facility is currently undergoing a £15 million modernization to support high-density AI workloads and improve efficiency, offering 2,040 m² of secure whitespace powered by 100% renewable energy.

Site History

2025 : nLighten launched a £15 million infrastructure upgrade to transition the site into a high-efficiency facility with a design PUE of 1.2 – 1.3.
2023: The facility was acquired by nLighten (backed by I Squared Capital) as part of its acquisition of the full Proximity Data Centers portfolio, rebranding the site from "Edge 9" to BRS1.
2022: The site officially opened for public colocation as Proximity Edge 9 following a £13.1 million acquisition and refurbishment.
2000 – 2022: The building served as a private, enterprise-grade data center for Capgemini, supporting major corporate and government IT infrastructure.
1995: The facility was originally constructed at 1120 Park Avenue as a purpose-built data center for the financial services firm Sun Alliance.

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Sites within 15 miles of nLighten: Bristol BRS1

Distance	Site	About
1.10 miles	Wavenet: Bristol
12.31 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	Vantage plans to develop the CWL5 data center campus in Caldicot, UK.
12.41 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Vantage's CWL5 campus in Caldicot, UK.
12.47 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Vantage's CWL5 campus in Caldicot, UK.
12.48 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Vantage's CWL5 campus in Caldicot, UK.
12.53 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Vantage's CWL5 campus in Caldicot, UK.
12.58 miles	Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Vantage's CWL5 campus in Caldicot, UK.
16.42 miles	Era4: Newport, South Wales	Era4 (formerly Carbon3.ai) is planning a modular AI data center at the Liberty Steel plant site along the River Usk in Newport, South Wales.
17.59 miles	Ark: Spring Park	The Spring Park campus is currently home to five other data centres. Data centres P1, P2, P3 and SQ17 are operational whereas P4 is nearing completion. Advanced works for P5 North have begun.
17.69 miles	Ark: Spring Park P1	The Spring Park campus is currently home to five other data centres. Data centres P1, P2, P3 and SQ17 are operational whereas P4 is nearing completion. Advanced works for P5 North have begun.
17.75 miles	Ark: Spring Park P2	The Spring Park campus is currently home to five other data centres. Data centres P1, P2, P3 and SQ17 are operational whereas P4 is nearing completion. Advanced works for P5 North have begun.
17.76 miles	Ark: Spring Park P3	The Spring Park campus is currently home to five other data centres. Data centres P1, P2, P3 and SQ17 are operational whereas P4 is nearing completion. Advanced works for P5 North have begun.
17.80 miles	Ark: Spring Park P4	The Spring Park campus is currently home to five other data centres. Data centres P1, P2, P3 and SQ17 are operational whereas P4 is nearing completion. Advanced works for P5 North have begun.
17.86 miles	Ark: Spring Park P5	Ark Data Centres has been given approval to build another data center at it's Spring campus near Corsham in the UK.
18.00 miles	Ark: Spring Park P6	Ark Data Centres is proposing a £250 million expansion of its Spring Park campus in Wiltshire, UK, on an 18-acre site known as "Donkey Field."
19.40 miles	Vantage CWL13
19.63 miles	Vantage Cardiff CWL1
19.70 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	This facility is part of Microsoft's CWL01 Campus in Newport.
19.71 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Microsoft is developing a large single-story data center next to Vantage's Newport campus in Newport, Wales.

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Operating Company

nLighten is a digital infrastructure platform owned by I Squared Capital, a leading global infrastructure investor. The company is developing innovative edge data centers distributed across European key economic hubs to provide best-in-class network access to regional, national, and global enterprises, private users, and the mobile workforce. Through the strategic distribution of its edge data centers, nLighten is working towards establishing a pan-European presence in all major cities and providing access to low latency and proximity to end users across Europe.
The edge data centers developed by nLighten are designed to meet the increasing demand for faster and more reliable data processing and storage, while also being mindful of environmental impact. nLighten was founded in 2021 by a core team with many years of experience and wide-ranging expertise in the data center sector. The team's main motivation was to create the next step for the data center industry and align edge data centers with the green transition.

nLighten's goal is to build and operate the leading pan-European edge data center platform. The company's focus on strategic locations, low latency, and environmental consciousness positions it as an innovative player in the European digital infrastructure landscape.

Expansion and Acquisitions

nLighten has grown rapidly through both organic growth and strategic acquisitions:

In June 2023, the company acquired Euclyde Data Centers, a French regional platform with six carrier-neutral data centers.
In September 2023, nLighten completed the acquisition of Proximity Data Centers, a leading UK edge platform with ten carrier-neutral data centers.
The company also acquired 10 carrier data center sites from its sister company Exa Infrastructure.

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