Telehouse North Two Data Centre
London Docklands (Coriander Avenue, E14 2AA), UK · Opened Summer 2016 · £135 million (investment) [226]. The overall London Docklands campus has a total capacity of 50MVA [227].
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchStrategic investment to expand capacity in the London Docklands, a key connectivity hub [226]. - Pioneering the use of an on-campus 132kV grid substation for enhanced power resilience [231]. - Advanced cooling design using CFD to manage thermal loads efficiently [228]. - Positioned as a central point for interconnection, attracting a vast ecosystem of network providers [229].
Key engineering challenges
Designing and constructing a next-generation mission-critical data centre with high power density and cooling requirements [226, 228]. - Integrating an on-campus 132kV grid substation to ensure robust power supply [231]. - Creating Europe's leading connectivity hub with access to over 530 carriers, ISPs, and ASPs [229]. - Optimizing multi-floor cooling systems using computational fluid dynamics [228].
Project facts
- Client / owner
- Telehouse Europe (part of KDDI Corporation)
- Lead contractor
- —
- Lead designers
- Cundalls (for design, utilizing computational fluid dynamics) [228].
- Project type
- new build
- Scale
- 24,000 square meters (gross floor space), 790,071 sq ft (total space across campus), 16MW (IT load capacity), 3,700 cabinets [226, 229, 230]. The only UK data centre with an on-campus 132kV grid substation [231].
- Disciplines
- Electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; civil engineering; data centre architecture; network engineering.
- Standards & frameworks
- Industry best practices for mission-critical data centres, high-availability design.
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