International construction firm ISG (Interior Services Group) has been chosen to build a £100m data center for financial services group Santander in the Midlands, UK.

The data center contract covers the fit out of two 161,000 sq ft buildings built identically to provide highly resilient services for a 24x7 operating facility.

ISG Chief Executive David Lawther said the company, which has fitted out data centers in the past for financial services clients including Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse First Boston, JP Morgan Chase and the Bank of America, is heavily focussed on the data center market at present.

“We are delighted to announce this contract win,” Lawther said.

“We have been focusing our efforts on the data center market, bringing together a highly skilled technical team. We expect further growth in this area as we focus on our multinational clients and on their increasingly demanding technical requirements.”

The Spanish banking group Santander has a strong presence in the UK, and is the largest bank in the Eurozone and largest in the UK in terms of deposits and the second largest in term of mortgages held, according to Wikipedia.

It has been upgrading and consolidating its data center operations around the world in recent years.

In August last year it announced an 89,000-sq-m data center campus in Brazil for its Latin American communications and technical support.

And just last year, in June, it announced it would be moving its India-based call centers back to the UK, with bases in Glasgow, Leicester and Liverpool now dealing with customer inquiries.