11 October 2016
Telehouse Europe has launched the first phase of North Two, its new £135m data centre in London.
With two floors of secure colocation space immediately available to early adopters, the carrier-neutral facility will cover 24,000m2 of gross floor area across an 11-storey building within Telehouse’s existing 73,000m2 Docklands campus.
The company describes North Two as one of the greenest data centres in the world. It will be the first multi-floor data centre to feature a vertical indirect adiabatic and evaporative cooling system, delivering a PUE rating of 1.16.
Telehouse adds that the facility will combine efficiency and connectivity, and is the only UK data centre that owns an on-campus 132kV grid substation directly connected to the National Grid. It says the site has a total power capacity of up to 73MVA, which includes a capacity of up to 50MVA from the substation and 23MVA from six additional commercial power feeds.
Physical security includes gated entrances that are manned round the clock, and more than 400 motion activated CCTV cameras.
Telehouse is the data centre subsidiary of Japanese telco KDDI, and its Docklands data centres are the primary home of the London Internet Exchange (LINX). Telehouse says siting LINX within North Two will meet any increased demand for low-latency data flow, or high volume traffic exchange through the hosting of powerful 100GbE capable routers.