Colt has received Tier III Design Documents certification from the Uptime Institute for its London 3 modular data center.

“Colt’s modular design approach to enterprise-class availability, as demonstrated by the Uptime Institute’s Tier III Design Certification, demonstrates an important step forward for the industry - a robust infrastructure solution with rapid speed of deployment,” Vince Renaud, Uptime Institute Senior Tier Certification Authority said.

“The rigorous review inherent to Uptime Institute Design Certification assures clients that each and every detail of a high-availability design is in place.”

London 3 is Colt’s flagship data center in London that uses a modular approach for Uninterruptible Power Supply and cooling which means maintenance and removal of replacement of components can be carried out without affecting resilience.

Designs submitted for facility in Leeds

The Yorkshire Design Group is planning a 11,664 sq m data center at a site that formerly was used as a chemicals site by Yorkshire Chemicals in Leeds to service the region’s growing digital media community, according to a report by Insidemedia.com.

If approved, the data center will be 32m high and will be used for colocation.

Onyx completes Edinburgh data center

Data center space and services provider Onyx has completed a multi-million pound build at its Edinburgh data center with Keysource, which provided cooling and electrical infrastructure.

The data center hall – one of five at the facility - provides an IT load of 800kW and 84 racks with a power density of 10kW. It has a Power Usage Effectiveness of 1.2, according to Onyx.

It offers 2N backup power generation and 2N+1 UPS support with N+2 cooling and N+1 heat rejection systems.

The data center is part of Onyx’ national network which includes facilities in Newcastle and Glasgow.

Vtesse Cirrus opens suite

Vtesse Cirrus has opened a new colocation suite at its 30,000-sq-ft Hoddeston site in Hertfordshire.

Covering 3,000 sq ft, the suite is equipped with 100 racks and can support IT loads of up to 5kW per rack but has capacity to provision up to 30kW per rack if required.

Sentrum monitors colo power

Sentrum Colo is using data center infrastructure services company AIT Partnership’s POWERView power monitoring system at its Hayes facility in the UK.

The solution is specifically designed to monitor customer power usage within the colo environment. It can report metrics such as kVA, A, kW and kWh and allows the colo provider to see how much power an individual user is consuming in its data center environment.