UK colocation company Pulsant has opened phase one of a new data center built to a Tier III standard in Croydon, South London, positioned with easy connections to the capital’s financial district.

Pulsant South London will have 8,400 sq m of data center floor space once its four-phase build-out is complete in 2014. This will hold eight data halls supporting 1,680 racks with between 3 and 10kW provided per rack,

With a strong focus on the financial sector, the data center has dark fiber connections with 0.4ms latency to a number of Points of Presence in London with 24 hour network and environmental monitoring.

Pulsant CEO Mark Howling said the facility has been designed to scale, offering customers flexible space for data transactions, built with companies wanting large scale facilities in mind.

“The scale of our facility allows customers to consume capacity to suite their requirements. Options range from single racks and cages to fully customized private data suite and even dedicated data halls,” Howling said.

“This flexibility is achieved with our funding structure and modular build process, which creates capacity options that transcend the traditional divide of retail and wholesale providers.”

Pulsant is offering data center space on either a fixed cost of per-square footage model.

Pulsant said it has designed all infrastructure at the facility to ensure there is no single point of failure, with a minimum of 2N redundancy built into all major components, including cooling and power supplies.

It said it uses a state of the art energy efficient cooling technology, which helps the data center meet a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.3 at full load.

Pulsant has eight data centers in five locations across the UK, some providing cloud and managed hosting services as well as colocation.