Telehouse Breaks Ground on New London Facility
October 22, 2025
Telehouse
Opened in 1990, it was the first purpose-built colocation data centre in Europe. Telehouse North has been the primary home of the London Internet Exchange since 1994 and continues to be one of the most heavily connected data centres in the world.
Telehouse operates five data centers in London, four at its Docklands campus in East London, consisting of Telehouse North (opened 1990), Telehouse East (opened 1999), Telehouse West (opened 2010), and Telehouse North Two (opened in 2016.) Telehouse Metro, which opened 1997, is located near Silicon Roundabout.
| Site | Sqft | Power (MW) | Opened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Telehouse North | 104,593 | 1990 | |
| Telehouse East | 1999 | ||
| Telehouse West | 50,000 | 8 | 2010 |
| Telehouse North Two | 259,000 | 18.5 | 2016 |
Telehouse North is a 7 floor multi-storey steel and concrete construction with 9,717 square meters of colocation space.
Telehouse East is a five storey data centre originally built in 1999. The average power per rack is low, between 1 to 2 kW per rack
• Early smoke detection alarms (VESDA) installed throughout the facility
• Fully addressable two stage fire detection system that monitors both under-floor and the room itself
• Fully addressable two stage fire detection system that monitors both under-floor and the room itself
• Dry sprinkler fire detection system to meet BS 5306, 3115 and with LFEPA approval.
• Ceilings, walls, floors and doors comply with RF90 (fire resistance 90 mins) in DC areas, telecom and plant areas
• ISO 9001:2008 Quality Management Standard
• ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System Standard
• ISO/IEC 27001:2005 Information Security Management
• PCI – DSS (Payment Card Industry – Data Security Standard) Attestation
• BS 25999-2:2007 Business Continuity Management
• The Carbon Trust Standard
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 0.01 miles | Verizon London THW | |
| 0.05 miles | Global Switch: London East |
Global Switch London East was the largest purpose-built data center in Europe, offering 450,000 sq ft of net technical space across 11 floors (700,000 sq ft gross).
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| 0.05 miles | GTT London GS2 |
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| 0.12 miles | Global Switch: London North |
Global Switch London North is a retrofit of the former Financial Times printing works. It first opened as a data center in late 1999, at the height of the "dot-com" boom.
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| 0.12 miles | Global Switch: London South |
Global Switch plans for the construction of a new data center in London Docklands. The new five-floor 290,625sqft data center, known as London South, will expand Global Switch’s London site.
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| 0.14 miles | Lumen London 3 (E India Dock) | |
| 0.31 miles | Telehouse South |
Telehouse is expanding its Telehouse South facility in London, UK.
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| 0.34 miles | IP House: London |
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| 0.44 miles | Kao Data: Bidder Street, Newham |
The Bidder Street Data Center has received planning approval from local councilors in the Newham area of East London. The facility is expected to begin operations by 2027.
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| 0.62 miles | Netwise London East (NLE) |
Situated in East London near City Airport, the facility is powered entirely by renewable energy. It boasts a highly efficient cooling system, utilizing evaporative technology to achieve a design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.05 (design capacity, not annualized).
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| 0.84 miles | nLighten: London Citi |
In April 2024, nLighten acquired the site from Exa Infrastructure.
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| 0.85 miles | Digital Meridian Gate (215 Marsh) |
Located in London Docklands, the Memaco House facility sits in close proximity to the city's many transport links. Memaco House provides 1,630 sq m of well-connected premium customer space over four floors.
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| 0.89 miles | Digital Sovereign House (227 Marsh Wall) |
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| 1.01 miles | TeliaSonera HEX/A | |
| 1.01 miles | ADA: East London Docklands |
The project's first phase includes a 64,245-square-meter (691,530 sq ft) data center building (LCY01) with a substation.
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| 1.01 miles | ADA: LCY02 |
This building is the second facility in Ada Infrastructure's Docklands campus, East London.
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| 1.05 miles | Wavenet: Harbour Exchange | |
| 1.05 miles | Equinix London LD8 Harbour Exchange (Docklands) |
Equinix LD8 was known as Telecity Harbour Exchange (HEX) until July 2016. The facility is the second most connected data centre ecosystem in London.
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| 1.13 miles | AIMES DC3 Mastmaker Road | |
| 1.15 miles | ADA: LCY03 |
This building is the third facility in Ada Infrastructure's Docklands campus, East London.
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| 1.22 miles | DRT London (Bonnington House) |
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| 1.23 miles | Digital Docklands: Cloud House | |
| 1.32 miles | Echelon LCY10 |
Echelon’s existing UK facility, LCY10, is a 12,000 sqm (129,000 sq ft)data center located in London’s Docklands.
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| 1.34 miles | Fibroptic: City Reach, Docklands |
Since its opening in 2011, this Tier 2 data centre has provided secure, high-performance colocation at City Reach, Isle of Dogs.
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| 1.34 miles | City Reach London Docklands |
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| 1.35 miles | Keppel GV7 London |
The Keppel London GV7 Data Centre is a newly refurbished data centre located in a secure estate within Canary Wharf, London.
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| 1.35 miles | Centersquare: Docklands LHR2 |
This facility was previously operated by Cyxtera. Centersquare completed the successful acquisition of Cyxtera and Evoque Data Center Solutions in early 2024.
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| 1.37 miles | DDCL: London |
London’s Docklands site provides approximately 23,160 sq. ft. of net technical space divided into two primary data halls with a combined capacity for over 320 cabinets.
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| 1.43 miles | Coreix Docklands | |
| 1.91 miles | Six Degrees: Anchorage Point |
The data center was originally established by BIS Ltd (which Six Degrees acquired in 2013) and underwent a significant refurbishment to Tier 3 standards.
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| 2.37 miles | AtlasEdge: London LCY001 |
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| 2.37 miles | LeaseWeb: London LON-12 |
Leaseweb's LON-12 data center is a Tier III facility strategically located in the heart of London’s Docklands, offering approximately 3,700 m² (nearly 40,000 sq ft) of secure technical space.
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| 2.63 miles | Infinity SDC HereEast |
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| 3.00 miles | Stellanor: London East |
It was originally a Lumen (formerly Level 3) data center.
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| 3.04 miles | Digital Realty: LON2 | |
| 3.05 miles | Internap London | |
| 3.07 miles | Netwise London Central |
Netwise has officially closed its "London Central" data center facility, which was a key part of their operations in London; the closure happened in June 2024,
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| 3.09 miles | Six Degrees: London (Interxion LON3) | |
| 3.11 miles | Digital Realty: LON1 LON3 |
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| 3.40 miles | Colt House London | |
| 3.53 miles | Stellanor: London City |
Stellanor acquired the site from Redcentric plc as part of a larger deal involving eight UK data centers.
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| 3.54 miles | Telehouse London Metro |
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| 3.60 miles | iomart DC2 London |
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| 3.63 miles | Epsilon London Telephone House | |
| 3.71 miles | 1 Olivers Yard - Digital Realty |
This site was formerly a Telecity site that was acquired by Equinix (January 2016) and subsequently sold to Digital Realty Trust (July 2016.)
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| 4.30 miles | Verne: London EC1 |
The data centre is stacked vertically over seven stories and has a Tier III data centre design.
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| 4.33 miles | Lumen: 10 Fleet Pl | |
| 4.38 miles | Stellanor: London North |
The Stellanor London North data center is one of the most historically significant and well-connected digital hubs in London.
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| 4.50 miles | Lumen: Goswell Rd |
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| 5.00 miles | aptum London | |
| 5.37 miles | Carrier-Neutral Data Center Request Dataset | |
| 5.37 miles | NTT: London LON2 |
NTT Data has acquired a 26.3-acre plot of land in London, UK, for its eighth data center in the market.
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| 5.83 miles | Verizon London UK5 | |
| 6.18 miles | Zenium London One |
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| 6.77 miles | Stratus: Belvedere |
Stratus Data Centres plans to construct two Tier III data centers in Belvedere, South East London.
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| 7.37 miles | OVH London LON-1 |
The OVH site of the new London facility was previously owned by a telecoms operator and it is near two substations, providing the required high electrical capacity
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| 7.65 miles | Ark: Meridian Park | |
| 7.65 miles | Visa United Kingdom | |
| 8.03 miles | NTT London 1 (Dagenham) |
The NTT LON1 facility will be 24,000 sqm and 60MW critical IT load once fully developed.
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| 8.95 miles | Infinity Romford North and South |
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| 9.00 miles | Green Mountain: London East |
The parent company of Norwegian-based Green Mountain has acquired Infinity SDC Ltd, taking over a data center in Romford, East London.
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| 9.02 miles | Green Mountain: London East Bldg 2 |
Green Mountain is expanding its London data center footprint for its existing facilities in the capital.
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| 9.96 miles | Wavenet: Enfield |
Wavenet’s Enfield facility is not a stand-alone data centre – it is “Data Hall 4” inside the Virtus LONDON1 campus.
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| 9.98 miles | VIRTUS London1 Enfield |
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| 10.28 miles | Coreix Enfield | |
| 10.43 miles | Nscale: Loughton, Essex |
Nscale, a prominent UK AI company, will invest $2.5 billion over the next three years to bolster the UK's data center infrastructure.
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| 10.49 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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| 10.55 miles | iomart: DC12 North London |
iomart acquired the LDeX Group in December 2018, and what was previously known as the LDeX1 site is now integrated into iomart's network as DC12 North London.
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| 10.57 miles | DRT London (Croydon) | |
| 10.91 miles | Pure DC: Brent Cross |
Pure Data Centres' Brent Cross project has entered its second phase, with the installation of superstructure steelwork now underway for a new building.
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| 10.91 miles | Vantage London I Campus |
Vantage's LHR-1 data center spans 430,000 sq ft (40,000 sqm) across two multi-story data centers.
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| 11.00 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Microsoft has started building a new £1 billion data center in Park Royal, west London, with construction scheduled to finish by early 2026.
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| 11.01 miles | Colt Powergate |
The Powergate data center is outside of the heart of the city but within zone 2, making the site easily accessible. This Colt tier III facility provides over 3,700m2 of data centre space and 15 MVA of power.
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| 11.02 miles | Equinix London LD9 Powergate |
LD9 is located in West London's Park Royal campus. The data centre was a Telecity managed facility before Equinix acquired Telecity in July 2016.
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| 11.14 miles | Vantage London II |
Located in Park Royal in West London, LHR2 is a six-story data center spanning 194,000 square feet (18,000 sqm).
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| 11.20 miles | Options West London | |
| 11.61 miles | Segro Pure Premier Park |
Segro, a leading property investor, has joined forces with Pure DC to develop a 30,000 square meter (322,915 square foot) data center in West London.
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| 11.68 miles | Equinix London LD3 | |
| 11.70 miles | Vision247: London |
Located in the heart of West London’s media hub, the Vision247 Chiswick Data Centre is a specialized boutique facility tailored for the broadcasting and digital media industries.
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| 11.86 miles | Ark: Alliance Park |
Ark Data Centres acquired the Renault Retail Group’s West London site expecting to start construction of the data centre in 2022. The site will go live in 2025.
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| 11.93 miles | Custodian Dartford DA2 | |
| 11.93 miles | Fujitsu: London East (SDC01) |
The Fujitsu London East (SDC01) data center is a Tier III certified facility located in Grays, Essex.
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| 12.01 miles | Pulsant: Croydon LN–1 |
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| 12.20 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Google has acquired a plot of land in Essex, UK, previously used as a racetrack and earmarked for residential developments.
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| 12.92 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
As part of a £5 billion two-year commitment to the UK, Google has opened a new data centre in Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire.
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| 13.21 miles | Redwire: London |
In 2010, Kingmead Homes were appointed Project Managers for Redwire DC’s 45,000 sq ft state-of-the-art data centre in Ealing Broadway, delivered alongside a 165-bed Premier Inn hotel on a 25-year lease.
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| 13.84 miles | Digital Reef: East Havering Campus |
Digital Reef aims to construct a massive $5.97 billion (£5.3 billion) data center campus on a 175-acre Green Belt site in London's Havering borough.
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| 15.34 miles | Equinix: Hertfordshire Campus (DC01UK) |
Equinix has purchased the DC01UK data center campus in Hertfordshire, UK, a site now referred to as the Hertfordshire Campus.
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| 15.41 miles | Equinix: Hertfordshire Expansion | |
| 15.44 miles | Intercity: Elstree |
The Intercity Technology Elstree data center is located on Theobald Street in Borehamwood (Greater London/Hertfordshire border).
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| 15.69 miles | Barclays Data Centre | |
| 15.70 miles | Kao Data: Northolt |
Kao Data's Northolt site is in West London, inside the M25. It's easy to reach from central London and Heathrow Airport.
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| 15.83 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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| 15.95 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Epping Forest District Council has granted planning permission for Google’s new data center campus at North Weald Airfield, moving the project forward despite local objections.
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| 16.82 miles | Colt: London Hayes LON4 |
Colt DCS is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.
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| 16.84 miles | Colt: London 8 |
This planned facility is part of Colt's London Hayes Campus in West London.
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| 16.84 miles | Colt: London 7 |
This planned facility is part of Colt's London Hayes Campus in West London.
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| 16.86 miles | Colt: London 5 |
This facility is a part of Colt's London Hayes Campus in West London.
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| 16.88 miles | Colt: London 6 |
This planned facility is part of Colt's London Hayes Campus in West London.
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| 17.19 miles | Exa: Hoddesdon |
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| 17.23 miles | Stellanor: Hounslow |
Stellanor acquired the site from Redcentric plc as part of a larger deal involving eight UK data centers.
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| 17.30 miles | VIRTUS Hayes London2 |
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| 17.47 miles | Ark: Union Park |
There are 21 Data Halls of approximately 1250m2 each, to be deployed at approximately 3MW per hall.
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| 17.66 miles | Marvel: Hayes |
The 1,914 sqm (20,602 sq ft) development will feature data halls, offices, and a single backup generator.
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| 17.69 miles | Hyperscale Data Center Request Dataset |
Located in the Silverdale Industrial Estate, this new West London facility is a specialized two-story data center dedicated to AWS tape storage.
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| 17.80 miles | Verizon London UK4 | |
| 17.83 miles | Ark: Elstree Expansion | |
| 17.87 miles | Ark: Elstree Campus |
Ark Data Centres is developing a massive data center campus in the Elstree/Hertsmere area, close to the A41 and M25.
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| 18.33 miles | Rackspace: LON8 |
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| 18.67 miles | ServerChoice: Harlow |
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| 18.68 miles | Kao Data: Harlow KLON-01 |
The KAO datacentre campus is located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.75 miles | Kao Data: KLON-02 |
This facility is part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.76 miles | Kao Data: KLON-08 |
This facility will be part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.76 miles | Kao Data: KLON-07 |
This facility will be part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.77 miles | Kao Data: KLON-03 |
This facility will be a part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.83 miles | Kao Data: KLON-04 |
This facility will be a part of KAO Data's Harlow Campus, located in the London-Stansted-Cambridge technology corridor.
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| 18.98 miles | VIRTUS: London 14 |
The Virtus London 14 data center spans two floors, offering 8,600 square meters of white space distributed across six data halls.
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| 19.10 miles | CyrusOne London II (Stockley Park) |
The London II datacenter was originally built by Infinity SDC.
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| 19.39 miles | VIRTUS: London 6 |
The facility is part of the VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus. LONDON6 comprises over 7,000m² of net technical data center space.
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| 19.40 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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| 19.41 miles | VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus |
The VIRTUS Data Centre Campus at Stockley Park is located close to the well known Stockley Park business center. The campus comprises of four facilities and is built with VIRTUS' value of flexibility at the core of the design.
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| 19.41 miles | LexisNexis Redhill UK |
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| 19.44 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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| 19.44 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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| 19.51 miles | VIRTUS: London 7 |
The facility is part of the VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus. LONDON7 comprises over 13,000m² of net technical data center space.
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| 19.53 miles | VIRTUS: London 8 |
The facility is part of the VIRTUS Stockley Park Campus. LONDON8 comprises over 7,000m² of net technical data center space.
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| 19.79 miles | DRT London (West Drayton) |
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| 19.93 miles | DataBank: London Heathrow |
DataBank’s Felltham data center offers over 2,400 square meters (26,000 sq. ft.) of data center colocation space. The site also features an N+1 power design and access to 6 on-site network providers.
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| 19.93 miles | ServerFarm London |
The data centre facility was previously known as Michael Perry Technology Centre (MPC) and is located on the Westgate Estate, Staines Road, Feltham.
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Telehouse is a subsidiary of KDDI Corporation. KDDI was founded in 1984 and is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
1989: New York Teleport site
1990: London Docklands North
1997: New York 25 Broadway
1997: London Metro
1998: Expanded to Los Angeles
1999: London Docklands East
1999: Paris Voltaire
2000: Asian expansion in Hong Kong & Seoul
2008: Beijing BEZ & Singapore
2009: Paris Magny
2010: London Docklands West
2010: Hanoi & Shanghai Jinqiao
2010: Johannesburg
2011: Hong Kong CCC
2011: New York Chelsea
2011: Istanbul
2012: Frankfurt and Moscow
2012: Beijing BDA
2013: Shanghai Zhangjiang
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