Telehouse will transform the skyline again at London’s key financial hub in the Docklands, adding a £135m multi-storey data center with an exterior shell that looks like a computer chip.

NWA, the UK architecture firm behind the Dublin Profile Park Data Centre, which one a Brill award for sustainable energy solutions, has designed the new facility, which will bring 23,134 sq m of floor space to the London market.

The data center will be built on the Telehouse campus – Telehouse is a subsidiary of Japanese provider KDDI.

Called North Two, Telehouse said this new data center will focus on providing hybrid services for customers such as security firm Sophos, which uses both cloud and physical data center space.

This follows a trend being seen across the industry, where cloud is being used by customers in colo for cloud bursting to meet spikes in capacity and for outsourcing applications that are not business critical.

North Two will sit alongside Telehouse North on the 71,584 sq m campus.

It will feature an on-site electrical substation with high power supply capability.

Alongside Telehouses North, East, West and Metro, North Two will bring the company’s total footprint in London to 73,000 sq m, making it the largest data center provider by floor space in the city.

This is not the only accolade. UK Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills Rt Hon Dr Vince Cable MP said the Japanese company was also the second largest investor in the UK in 2013/2014, creating more than 3,000 new jobs.