Jaguar Land Rover will take delivery of a Colt modular data center as part of a £350m investment in manufacturing capacity expansion at its plant in Solihull in the UK.

The car company will migrate ‘existing on-site IT facilities to a new purpose-built data centre at the plant, featuring a data centre from Colt’ and is expected to be operational before the end of Q2 2012.

Colt said it could not reveal which model from its data center range was being supplied but confirmed that the module would live inside a powered shell.

Bernard Geoghegan, executive VP at Colt Data Center Services said: “After a thorough assessment Jaguar Land Rover asked for some minor augmentation to the system. There is  some planning to be completed but the module has been built and tested and we’re ready to move when they are ready to take delivery.”

The ISO27001 certified system, with a design Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.21, will be pre-configured with racks and cold aisle containment before handover.

Guy Ruddock,  VP operations at Colt Data Center Services, said: “They wanted to see how we manufacture. We’ve been subjected to a thorough quality assessment and quite honestly we’ve learned a lot about how an advanced manufacturing company like Jaguar sources its components. We have been put through the same rigorous testing that any component supplier to such a high quality manufacturer would face.”

The modules are manufactured in the north East of England and the data center will be transported by road to the Jaguar car plant for on-site assembly. 

Recently Dimensional Control Systems, Inc. (DCS), a provider of quality management software announced that Jaguar Land Rover selected its Graphic Data Management (GDM) solution to replace its existing dimensional data management system. The system allows engineers to remotely check parts quality and assembly processes.

Jaguar Land Rover, part of the Tata Group, is creating 750 jobs as part of its £350m investment in its manufacturing capacity at the plant near Wolverhampton.