Posted: Thu, March 11, 2010
One of the world's largest data centres opens in South Wales
NGD Europe, one of the word's largest data centres, located near Newport, South Wales, has been officially opened by the Welsh Assembly Government's Lesley Griffiths, Deputy Minister for
Science, Innovation and Skills.
NGD Europe is now operational with its first long-term tenants already installed following completion of the essential phases of a £200 million project which began nearly two years ago. This was to
convert and upgrade the 750,000 sq ft former Hynix semiconductor plant into a state-of-the-art tier 3 mega data centre.
Among its many features the ISO 14001 environmentally-friendly NGD Europe has its very own onsite power sub-station connection capable of sustaining a City the size of Bristol; a wide range of
onsite dark fibre carrier interconnects to enable high speed low latency connectivity; triple-skinned walls, bomb proof glass, prison grade perimeter fencing, infra-red detection, biometric recognition and ex
-special forces security guards.
Next Generation Data Ltd., the owner and operator of the new data centre which has worked closely with the
Welsh Assembly Government on the project, is now making available a wide range of custom built co-location data halls to large UK and international organisations. Contracts totalling over £20 million
have already been concluded with BT and Logica which began moving their extensive data centre IT operations into the high security NGD Europe facility last month.
"We are very pleased to have successfully transformed this impressive but unused local landmark building into a truly world-class data centre and sincerely thank the Welsh government and all our
suppliers and contractors for helping us get the project off the ground and up and running on time," said Simon Taylor, Chairman and Co-founder of Next Generation Data. "We believe our success
here will send a strong message to UK and international organisations signalling Wales as an excellent environment for business relocation."
The Assembly Government Minister for Science, Innovation and Skills, Lesley Griffiths, said the major, high profile investment by Next Generation Data represented very good news for Wales and the
local economy. "The Digital Economy is one of the priority sectors for research and development in Wales, and for a highly respected company such as Next Generation Data to locate and develop this
site here in Newport sends out a strong, clear message.
"Next Generation Data will provide opportunities for higher level skills, including the technician base required to ensure the company, and economy, remains competitive far into the future.
She concluded, "This project proves there is added value through investing in Wales and with the support of the Assembly Government, the high level technology infrastructure necessary to meet
growing global demand can become a reality."
NGD Europe is designed to cater for all current and future computing requirements as befits a true next generation data centre. UK and overseas organisations with several older data centre sites
that have become too small or constrained by lack of power now have a great opportunity to move to Wales and save money by consolidating all their operations under NGD Europe's vast roof.
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