nLighten: Milton Keynes

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nLighten: Milton Keynes

Short Code: LTN1

Site was first built in 2013 and has expansions through 2028

PUE: 1.29

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nLighten LTN1 (Milton Keynes) was integrated into the nLighten portfolio in September 2023 through the acquisition of Proximity Data Centres. Located at 1 Brick Close in Kiln Farm, the facility occupies a former bank processing center converted for high-density colocation.

The site currently offers 500 m² of technical space and is engineered to support AI-ready workloads with power densities ranging from 15 kW to 150+ kW per cabinet using rear-door cooling. In 2024, the facility was further upgraded with a rooftop array of over 1,000 solar panels as part of a transition to 100% carbon-free energy operations.

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Sites within 15 miles of nLighten: Milton Keynes

Distance	Site	About
2.69 miles	Safenames: Milton Keynes
2.76 miles	Level3 Milton Keynes
2.81 miles	Pulsant Milton Keynes
5.54 miles	Colocker: Milton Keynes
10.64 miles	Creslow Park	Creslow Park is a data center located in a rural area of Buckinghamshire, United Kingdom.
16.14 miles	Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset	Amazon is planning a two-building campus at Linmere Island, near Houghton Regis, northwest of Luton.
16.22 miles	Manton Park Data Center	Located on Manton Lane in Bedford, the Manton Park Data Center is a 27,294-square-foot facility acquired by Meadow Partners in early 2024 as a strategic "off-market" investment.
16.72 miles	Node4: Northampton
17.83 miles	Service Express: Bedford	The facility originally belonged to Blue Chip Customer Engineering Ltd, a UK-based specialist in IBM systems and managed services.
19.00 miles	Safenames: Wellingborough	The Safenames Wellingborough Data Centre (often referred to as SNDC1) is Safenames' flagship enterprise-grade facility, located in the East Midlands (Northamptonshire).

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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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