Telehouse North Data Centre
London Docklands, UK · Opened 1990
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchPioneering role in the European colocation data centre market [259]. - Strategic importance as a leading network ecosystem and home to LINX [261, 263]. - Continuous adaptation and upgrade to maintain its position as a key connectivity hub.
Key engineering challenges
Being the first purpose-built colocation data centre in Europe, setting standards for future developments [259, 262]. - Housing the London Internet Exchange (LINX) and serving as a primary home for its operations [262, 263]. - Managing heat dissipation, a basic engineering challenge for data centres [264]. - Providing robust power and cooling infrastructure with N+1 redundancy.
Project facts
- Client / owner
- Telehouse Europe (part of KDDI Corporation)
- Lead contractor
- —
- Lead designers
- —
- Project type
- new build; upgrade
- Scale
- 98,705 sq ft colocation size, 1 to 3kW power per rack, 4 x generators with N+1 redundancy. Benefits from on-site primary substation with 50MVA total capacity. 100,000 sq ft of net technical capacity [259, 260, 261, 262].
- Disciplines
- Electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; civil engineering; data centre architecture; network engineering.
- Standards & frameworks
- Industry best practices for colocation data centres, N+1 redundancy.
Sources: [259] Telehouse. Telehouse North Data Centre in London. https://www.telehouse.net/data-centre-services/uk/london/telehouse-north/ (Accessed: 2026-06-10). [260] Telehouse. London Data Centers. https://www.telehouse.com/global-data-centers/emea/london-data-centers/ (Accessed: 2026-06-10). [261] Colo-X. Telehouse North, London Docklands - Data centre. https://www.colo-x.com/data-centre/telehouse-north/ (Accessed: 2026-06-10). [262] Telehouse. Telehouse London Docklands Data Centre Campus Brochure. https://www.telehouse.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/Telehouse-London-Docklands-Data-Centre-Campus-Brochure.pdf (Accessed: 2026-06-10). [263] Telehouse. London Data Centres & Colocation. https://www.telehouse.net/data-centre-services/uk/london/ (Accessed: 2026-06-10). [264] IMechE. Cool Data. https://www.imeche.org/news/news-article/cool-data (Accessed: 2026-06-10).