Iron Mountain plans 27 MW data center in Slough Trading Estate

Iron Mountain announced the development of a new 27 megawatt data center in the Slough Trading Estate, London.
Iron Mountain for CIOsLON-2 will be powered by 100 percent renewable energy and certified by the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM).

Located in the London region, in the Slough Trading Estate, the three-story, 25.000 square meter facility provides for 27 megawatts of IT load capacity equally distributed across three identical data hall floors of 9 megawatts each, including N+2 redundancy.

LON-2 will provide carrier-neutral connectivity options with easy access to global networks, cloud on-ramps and leading global peering exchanges.

In addition, Iron Mountain recently deployed 4 megawatts of new capacity at their LON-1 data center by adding two individual 2 megawatt data halls, which brings the total power capacity at the facility to 9.1 megawatts.

“We announce new colocation opportunities at our second data center in this highly connected market as well as adding new capacity at our LON-1 data center, which continues to be in high demand,” said Eric Boonstra, Vice President and General Manager, Europe at Iron Mountain Data Centers.

Iron Mountain’s global data center platform consists of 15 operational facilities across 13 markets and three continents. Iron Mountain’s data center platform can support more than 445 megawatts of IT capacity at full build-out.