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bringing it to over 1mn sq ft today .

Located five minutes from Heathrow airport , the 8MW London data centre has attracted customers from across the globe as Shanahan believes London is “ one of the most sought-after locations ” in Europe , the Middle East and Africa .

“ It was a natural choice for us to go to London as part of our push into Europe ,” notes Shanahan . “ We ’ ve been eyeing a number of other opportunities throughout the region so I ’ d say when it comes to future expansions – watch this space .”

“ We ’ ve managed to get one of our US customers onboard into a multi-megawatt capacity environment for them in around eight or nine weeks – that is something that is quite unheard of in this industry ,” continues Shenoy . “ I think it really speaks volumes about the way that we plan our environments and how we share our roadmap with our clients and align with their expansion plans .”

In London , ServerFarm took an existing data centre and significantly upgraded it with completely new infrastructure , new technologies and new ways of working . Through the major refurbishment , it has helped drive cost-efficiency and reduce waste .

“ The existing tenants now get extra capacity that they otherwise had no use for and they ’ re able to monetise that ,” explains Shanahan . “ The data centre gets a new lease of life , it increases capacity and reliability for our customers and geographically , it ’ s in an area into which customers are keen to expand .

ServerFarm staff discussing InCommand in CH1 control room

114 June 2018