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.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.05 miles | Digital Realty: London LGW15 |
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| 0.08 miles | Digital Realty: London LGW16 |
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| 0.27 miles | Stellanor: Gatwick |
The facility was previously known as the Redcentric Gatwick Data Centre (and before that, 4D Gatwick).
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| 8.25 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).
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| 8.25 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).
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| 8.26 miles | LexisNexis Redhill UK |
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| 8.27 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).
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| 15.73 miles | Pulsant: Croydon LN–1 |
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| 17.32 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
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| 17.71 miles | DRT London (Croydon) | |
| 17.78 miles | CapitaLand: Croydon |
Croydon is a two-storey colocation data centre located 19 km south of Central London on the Prologis industrial estate.
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| 19.01 miles | Smallworld: Guildford |
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| 19.75 miles | Level3 Tunbridge Wells | |
| 20.00 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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Rackspace began operations in December 1998 to provide managed web hosting services to small and medium business. Today, Rackspace serves over 300,000 customers in thirteen data centers worldwide.
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