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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

UK’s Loughborough University renovates its two data centers

UK's Loughborough University has announced that it has completed its renovation project, upgrading two of its data centers in Leicestershire. Schneider Electric delivered the data center modernization on the Haslegrave and Holywell Park data centers, adding EcoStruxure Row Data Center, InRow C...

June 23, 2023

United Kingdom

IT disruptions at the Guernsey government caused by data center cooling and power issues

The States of Guernsey in the United Kingdom discovered that a series of IT disruptions were caused by the inability of backup systems and the use of outdated equipment. Between November and January, the authorities of the British Isles experienced four disruptions, rendering the state's websi...

June 22, 2023

United Kingdom

Secure IT Environments provides the ICU of a UK hospital with a micro data center

Secure I.T. Environments, a provider of modular data centers, has delivered a micro data center to a healthcare facility in London, United Kingdom. The intensive care unit (ICU) at Barnet Hospital got the 42U Micro Data Centre 3 this past week. The encapsulated facility has a maximum load capa...

June 20, 2023

United Kingdom

Plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire, UK return following legal challenge

Following a successful legal challenge, Link Park Heathrow’s plans for a new data center in Buckinghamshire are going ahead. First filed in December 2020, the company was seeking to demolish the existing buildings at its site on Thorney Mill Road in Iver to develop a 55,000 sqm (592,000 sq ft)...

June 19, 2023

United Kingdom

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

A Hospital in the UK Get new data center as Part of a $494m Renovation

A hospital in the United Kingdom is undergoing a $494 million renovation that includes adding a data center. The House of Commons approved the reconstruction of Kettering General Hospital (KGH) in Northamptonshire. The KGH, which has occupied the same location for 126 years, will receive a $49...

May 26, 2023

United Kingdom

Sonic Edge partners with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods across the UK

Sonic Edge has announced a partnership with Deep Green to launch 50 HPC/EdgePods at locations across the UK this year and in early 2024. According to the company, these 50 deployments will range from 50kW to 2MW, while the partnership with Deep Green will power them with low-cost, carbon-free ...

May 18, 2023

United Kingdom

UK High Court Judges Invested in a Data Center Project Suspected of Tax Evasion

Two British High Court justices were investors in a contested data center project allegedly used as a tax scheme. The Financial Times discovered the investment, along with several other investments made by judges in similar ventures. The money invested by Justices Simon Bryan and Martin Griffi...

May 18, 2023

United Kingdom

Kao Data announces expansion Manchester data center

Kao Data has announced plans to develop a new data center in Manchester, UK. The facility, located in Kenwood Point, will offer a capacity of 40 MW and will be the first Kao data center to be built in the North of England. Based on a 39,000 sqm (419,800 sq ft) ex-industrial site, the facilit...

May 12, 2023

KAO Data

GTR plans to launch UK data center campus before summer

After breaking ground on its new Slough-based campus in January, KKR-funded Global Technical Realty (GTR) has announced that it plans to launch the site before summer 2023. The $1 billion campus, GB One, comprises three independent facilities, each providing 5373 sqm of net technical space and...

May 05, 2023

London: Slough

Despite Data Center Closures, UK Ministry Of Defence Payroll Shift To Oracle Cloud Proceeds.

In an effort to move its legacy enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to the cloud, the British Ministry of Defense has awarded Deloitte $2.5 million. The MOD intends to close its data center and migrate to Oracle Cloud, but the transition has been difficult. First reported by The Stack, t...

May 01, 2023

United Kingdom

UK's Effectiveness IT Introduces a Range of Prefabricated Data Centers

EfficiencyIT, a UK data center company, has introduced its own line of prefabricated modular data centers. This week, the company unveiled ModularDC, a new line of adaptable, prefabricated data centers for on-premises, distributed IT, and edge computing settings that can be deployed in 12 t...

March 23, 2023

United Kingdom

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

Britain's swimming pools to be heated with waste data center heat with Deep Green technology

In Exmouth, Devon, a small Edge data center, named the "digital boiler" has been installed at a local leisure center by UK startup, Deep Green, to heat the swimming pool. While initially, the company planned to target seven swimming pools across the UK with the boilers, this has now been incre...

March 17, 2023

United Kingdom

Goonhilly, a UK Company, Purchases Two Comsat Teleports in the US

Goonhilly, a UK ground station operator, has purchased two teleports in the US. Satcom Direct's SD Government and Goonhilly Earth Station Ltd. this week stated that they had agreed for the UK company to purchase the Comsat teleports located in Southbury, Connecticut and Santa Paula, California...

March 17, 2023

United Kingdom

Climate disasters endanger subsea cables

New research from the UK's National Oceanography Centre and the University of Central Florida has found that thousands of miles of cables on the seafloor are increasingly at risk due to climate-related disasters. This, experts say, makes the world's internet connectivity vulnerable to outages ...

March 09, 2023

United Kingdom

LSEG Data Center Hosts TNS Trading & Market Data Systems

The trading and market data systems of its clients are being transferred from the Main Data Center, which is now in the City of London, to the new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) Data Center, which is located close to the Docklands. After securing considerable infrastructure capacity in the...

March 01, 2023

London

Transaction Network Services Moves to New LSE Data Facility

The new London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) data center is now home to a number of clients of Transaction Network Services (TNS). TNS was compelled to move after LSEG declared that its present City of London data center would be shut down. The brand-new colocation facility in Docklands still...

March 01, 2023

London

Plans For a Three-story Data Facility in Loughton, Northeast London

A 185,150-square-foot data center is projected for northeast London. Alandale Scaffolding has applied to Epping Forest District Council for permission to construct a new center in Loughton, close to the Debden station, as first revealed by EssexLive. The company intends to construct a three-st...

February 23, 2023

London

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