Telehouse Europe is investing an initial £80m to almost
double the size of its London Docklandsdatacentrefacilities.
Telehouse is home to the London Internet Exchange (Linx), one of
the world's biggest internet exchange points. The move is as part
of a global expansion of Telehouse facilities funded by parent
company KDDI.
The London development will see a new eight-storey, 12,000
square metre datacentre, Telehouse South, built near the firm's two
existing
datacentres in Docklands.
Construction work will begin later this year and the new
facilities are due to come on-stream in early 2010, meeting the
growing demands of City-based financial institutions, online and
media businesses, global enterprises and the forthcoming 2012
Olympic Games.
In parallel with the London expansion and in order to interlink
its global datacentre services, Telehouse is also investing in
15,000 square metres of new facilities near Paris and a new
1,500 square metre datacentre in Singapore.
Linx chief executive John Souter said, "This investment
reaffirms London's pre-eminence as a world-class centre for
communications interconnect."