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Digital 9 buys data centre in London

Digital 9 Infrastructure has signed a binding sale and purchase agreement for the acquisition of GAData Holdings Limited (trading as Volta Data Centres) for £45m.

Volta wholly owns and operates a premier data centre facility based in central London, providing co-location services. The investment forms part of Digital 9’s metro edge data centre strategy of identifying facilities located in or near urban centres offering robust connectivity to customers which require low latency solutions. This complements its Verne Global and SeaEdge data centre strategies.

The 6 MW data centre has been operating in central London since 2013 from a 91,000 square foot, leasehold building in Great Sutton Street on the edge of the City of London, a short walk from Farringdon Station.

It offers access to multiple cloud platforms and over 40 networks are available in its carrier-neutral facility. This ranks it in the top 10 for connectivity amongst all central London data centres, and first amongst independent data centre providers. The company has a diversified customer base of over 100 clients, operating across the finance, media, tech, telecom and energy sectors.

More than half of MW are sold under a contract that reimburses Volta for the cost of power, reducing its exposure to power price fluctuations. The energy consumed is sourced from renewable producers, helping Volta to focus on achieving carbon neutrality.

The facility is located on two separate diverse power rings within London’s upgraded 33kV network making it one of the most power-resilient data centres in the UK. The Volta Data Centres facility is manned with security guards 24/7, equipped with biometric access control, and provides reliable backups and UPS devices to protect data against outages.

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