Iron Mountain Incorporated Expands EMEA Data Center Footprint with New 27 Megawatt Facility Build in London
June 01, 2021 at 04:05 pm EDT
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Iron Mountain Incorporated announced that they are expanding their data center footprint through the development of a new highly interconnected 27 megawatt facility at full build. Like all Iron Mountain data centers, LON-2 will be powered by 100% renewable energy and certified by the Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) to obtain the highest level of environmental, social and economic sustainability. 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. The immediately available space offers a wide range of on-site network services including rich connectivity options and dark fiber access to hundreds of networks, clouds and service providers.
Iron Mountain Inc is engaged in a physical ecosystem supporting information storage and retrieval for businesses which rely on paper documents or computer tapes to store their valuable information. The Companyâs segments include Global Records and Information Management (Global RIM) Business and Global Data Center Business. The Global RIM Business segment includes various offerings, including records management, data management, global digital solutions, secure shredding, secure shredding, and consumer storage. The Global Data Center Business segment provides data center facilities and the capacity to protect mission-critical assets and ensure the continued operation of its customersâ information technology (IT) infrastructure with data center options. The Company also offers IT asset disposition customer solutions. It serves industries, such as commercial, legal, financial, healthcare, insurance, life sciences, energy, business services, entertainment and government organizations.