Telehouse East Data Centre
London Docklands, UK · Opened 1999, ongoing expansions
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchStrategic location in London Docklands, adjacent to other Telehouse sites, forming a large campus. - Benefits from the on-site primary substation for robust power supply. - Continuous expansion to increase IT capacity and accommodate more clients. - Part of Europe's first carrier-neutral colocation facility.
Key engineering challenges
Maintaining high availability and redundancy for critical data centre operations. - Integrating with the dense fibre network cluster in London Docklands. - Managing power and cooling for a multi-floor facility. - Expanding capacity to meet growing demand while maintaining operational continuity.
Project facts
- Client / owner
- Telehouse Europe (part of KDDI Corporation)
- Lead contractor
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- Lead designers
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- Project type
- new build; upgrade
- Scale
- 60,000 sq ft net tech across 5 floors, 55,972 sq ft colocation size, 1 to 2kW power per rack, 5 x generators with N+1 redundancy. Benefits from on-site primary substation with 50MVA total capacity. Expansion in 2024 added 5.4MW of IT capacity, bringing total to 7.7MW [253, 254, 255, 256, 257, 258].
- Disciplines
- Electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; civil engineering; data centre architecture; network engineering.
- Standards & frameworks
- Industry best practices for colocation data centres, N+1 redundancy.
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