September 28, 2022 Datum Datacentres Limited
Teledata has been acquired by Datum Datacentres. Datum Datacentres announced the acquisition of the Manchester-based colocation data center. Interestingly, Datum was also acquired last year by UBS. According to the company, the acquisition is a part of its regional expansion strategy. Details of...
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August 30, 2022 London
It has been revealed that Thames Water has launched a probe into the water use of data centers in the UK's capital, following the utility company’s discovery that UK data centers have been using drinking water to cool down their servers. The news of review comes as the UK’s hosepipe ban comes...
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August 02, 2022 Datum Datacentres Limited
Datum Datacentres is the latest data center company to announce it's switching to hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) to replace its diesel for its backup generators, and is working with Keysource to help its transition to this more sustainable energy option. This comes as a wider commitment to the...
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August 02, 2022 London
In the wake of a housing crisis, the Greater London Authority (GLA) has informed developers must halt new housing projects, with talk of a potential ban that could last until 2035, in response to energy constraints caused by data centers. Ealing, Hounslow and Hillingdon, which contributed to 11%...
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April 27, 2022 Datum FRN1
Datum Datacentres has begun an expansion process on its facility nine months after UBS Asset Management bought it. The company plans to double the space of its data center located at Farnborough, Hampshire, London. The facility currently has 3,750 square meters of space. It will now have 7,500...
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April 12, 2022 London
Stratus Data Centres has announced its intention to construct two 18MW Tier III data centers on a brownfield site at Belvedere, South East London, part of Riverside Energy Park. The Riverside Energy Park is a development of waste management firm Cory, which, it says, intends to meet "London's...
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September 17, 2021 Datum Datacentres Limited
UBS Asset Management has completed the acquisition of UK data center firm Datum Datacentres. UBS says it has acquired a 100 percent stake in the data center company from Darwin Private Equity. Datum operates a 40,000 square feet facility called FRN1 in the QinetiQ Cody Technology Park in...
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June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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October 02, 2018 London
China’s favorite e-commerce giant Alibaba is planning the launch of a cloud region in London, two years after entering the European market with a data center in Frankfurt. The move was not highly publicized; the company merely updated its website to advertise the future availability zones in the...
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