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Mayor of London Commits to Joint Effort on Data Center Growth Challenges

London Mayor Sadiq Khan has pledged "coordinated action" to address the challenges posed by rising data center demand across the capital, particularly growing pressure on power infrastructure. A report commissioned by the Greater London Authority and prepared by Buro Happold found that while Lond...

June 17, 2026

London

Colt and ESR Partner for 130MW Facility in Osaka, Japan

Data center operator Colt DCS and APAC real estate firm ESR have formed a joint venture to develop the first phase of a 130MW hyperscale data center site in Minoh City, Osaka, Japan. The first phase, comprising 65MW, will be designed and built by the JV and operated by Colt.Niclas Sanfridsson,...

October 18, 2025

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Colt signs $1.7bn joint venture in India

Colt Data Centre Services and family-owned alternative asset owner RMZ this week announced a 50:50 joint venture to invest $1.7 billion in the Indian data center market. The companies this week said the investment will initially focus on expediting development at Colt’s existing sites in Navi ...

November 19, 2024

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Colt DCS plans expansion of planned data center in Hayes

Colt DCS, a company which provides hyperscale and large enterprise data center solutions, is set to double the size of its planned data center campus in Hayes, West London, after acquiring a fresh parcel of land.A Colt DCS statement said: “This will make the entire site one of the largest in ...

April 17, 2024

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Viasat launches new headquarters in London

Satellite firm Viasat last week officially launched its new office, at 50 Finsbury Square in London, as the combined offices of both Viasat and Inmarsat, the rival vendor it acquired last year. The new 121,000 square feet site includes new satellite, network, and cyber operations centers for t...

April 15, 2024

London

Oriole Networks raises £10 million in seed funding

University College London (UCL) spinout Oriole Networks has raised £10 million ($12.6m) in a seed funding round co-led by UCL Technology Fund, Clean Growth Fund, XTX Ventures, and Dorilton Ventures, with support from Innovate UK Investor Partnership. “As the demand for compute continues to inc...

March 29, 2024

London

Colt DCS unveils new data center telemetry platform

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has launched a new data center telemetry platform which enables customers to use real-time telemetry data to support the management of their data center workloads. The company developed this platform in partnership with consulting firm Protiviti, the compan...

March 21, 2024

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Segro to develop new data centers after £900 million share issue

Property investor Segro has raised £900 million ($1.1 billion) in a share issue and intends to use this funds to develop its portfolio across the UK and Europe. The London-listed business had initially been hoping to raise £800 million ($1.01bn), but on Tuesday evening its directors said stron...

February 29, 2024

London

Swiss Life Asset Managers acquires major stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners

Investment firm Swiss Life Asset Managers this week entered an agreement with London-based InfraBridge, an infrastructure investment management division of DigitalBridge Group, to acquire a co-controlling equity stake in Telecom Infrastructure Partners (TIP). Gianfranco Saladino, head of value...

January 10, 2024

London

Ridge purchases UK data center consultancy Concert

Building consultancy Ridge recently acquired London-based Concert, a data center-focused consulting company, to boost its business in that sector. Both companies finalized this acquisition on November 3, but the terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Concert will operate under its curre...

November 18, 2023

London

ICG completes £125 million purchase of London DC portfolio

Asset management firm Intermediate Capital Group recently completed a £125 million purchase of offices and data center portfolio in London leased to UK telco Vodafone. The 260,000 square feet portfolio comprises five data centers which was initially acquired from British Land who announced the...

October 23, 2023

London

Colt Data Centre Services to launch in Chennai, expand Mumbai operations with $750m

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) of the United Kingdom intends to open a new unit in Chennai and invest $750 million to expand the capacity of its first unit in Mumbai, according to a senior company official. In five to seven years, India is anticipated to account for one-third of the company's...

September 18, 2023

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Colt DCS establishes its inaugural data facility in India

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opened its first Indian data center last week. Colt DCS's flagship data center in Navi Mumbai enters the booming Indian data center market, expected to reach 1.318 GW by 2024. Colt DCS hopes to meet the growing demand from hyperscale cloud service providers and ...

September 15, 2023

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Thames Water considers restricting London data centers' water usage

Thames Water has announced that it is considering restricting data center water-use in London. The measure could reportedly include charging operators more at peak times and adding flow restrictors to pipes.Initially, the private utility undertook an assessment to get insight into how much wat...

July 27, 2023

London

98MW data center facility planned outside Abbots Langley, Hertfordshire

Greystoke Land Ltd has applied to the Three Rivers District Council to demolish extant structures on a 33-hectare site north of Mansion House Farm through Bedmond Road in Abbots Langley to construct a data center campus. The company intends to construct two data center structures totaling up t...

July 05, 2023

London

Havering Friends of the Earth raise concerns over data center plans

Havering Friends of the Earth has voiced concerns over an application to build a data center on Green Belt land. Digital Reef is proposing a huge data center campus in East Havering, within a new 500-acre site, with 67% of the land dedicated to an "ecology park." The company has offered the co...

June 14, 2023

London

Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) launches fourth data center in Inzai

Colt Data Centre Services (Colt DCS) has announced that it has begun work on its fourth data center in Inzai City, Japan. The new facility is located just 600m from Colt Data Centre Services' existing Inzai Campus, and is the second development under the joint venture between Fidelity Investm...

April 26, 2023

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Akamai Technologies Will Purchase Ondat, a Cloud Storage Company

Akamai Technologies, an American provider of content delivery services, and Ondat, a provider of cloud storage, have signed a binding agreement. The transaction is anticipated to occur in the first quarter of 2023, and Akamai anticipates no major changes to its annual financial forecast. The a...

March 21, 2023

London

Colt plans new Mumbai data center campus

Colt has announced plans to expand in India, with a new data center campus in Navi Mumbai. The campus is pegged to include ten buildings, with a total of 40 data halls, and 40,000 sqm of data center white space spanning a 62,000 sqm site.Further, the company outlined that the campus will have...

March 16, 2023

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Colt Data Centre Services (DCS) opens Osaka Keihanna data center

Colt has launched its 45MW facility, located in the Keihanna area of Osaka, following the company first announcing the project in 2021. According to the company, already, 75% of the data center is committed.Spanning 42,000 sqm (452,000 sq ft), Niclas Sanfridsson, CEO of Colt DCS, said that ...

March 14, 2023

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