VIRTUS London Stockley Park Campus (LONDON5, LONDON6, LONDON7, LONDON8)
Stockley Park, London, UK · Operational (multiple facilities)
The judgement call
Account-gated at launchStrategic development of multiple data centres within a campus to provide significant combined capacity [188]. - Focus on power efficiency and modular design to meet evolving demands [187]. - Continuous growth and expansion in the London market, from an initial 4MW data centre to over 170MW across 10 facilities [189].
Key engineering challenges
Delivering large amounts of capacity with speed to market in key markets like London [190]. - Designing and operating Tier III Certified data centres with high power efficiency [187, 191]. - Managing the complexities of data centre construction, ownership, and operation, including predicting load and adopting a modular approach [187, 192]. - Ensuring secure, scalable, and flexible colocation services.
Project facts
- Client / owner
- VIRTUS Data Centres
- Lead contractor
- VIRTUS (with construction partners like Skanska for London 11) [186]
- Lead designers
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- Project type
- new build; upgrade
- Scale
- Combined capacity of 112MW of IT load across four data centres, 450,000 sq ft [188]. VIRTUS has a portfolio of 10 live facilities in London of over 170 megawatts [189].
- Disciplines
- Electrical engineering; mechanical engineering; civil engineering; network engineering; data centre architecture.
- Standards & frameworks
- Tier III Certified, industry best practices for colocation data centres.
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