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Colocation and datacenter services are becoming an increasingly compelling solution for organizations in the leaner economic scenario. Recently, NaviSite launched a new enterprise class data center facility in Woking, UK to meet the rising colocation demand and has already won a contract worth over USD 10 million for providing colocation services through this facility to a leading online European gaming operator. This facility could be expanded up to 70,000 sq feet of datacenter space.

The demand for premium data center and scalable network capacity in the European market is the main catalyst for NaviSite’s expansion plans in the UK colocation market. Gartner research says that some UK colocation providers are experiencing annual increases in demand of 30% or more. Gartner further estimates that in high-demand areas like London, if significant new data center space is not brought on-stream, there will be no free space left by the end of the decade. In fact, this rising demand and limited supply is what is allowing providers to continue to increase pricing. The UK colocation pricing is the highest in Western Europe and would continue to rise at rates higher than inflation for the next couple of years.

Very cool, it will be interesting to see if the demand for data centers continues, as we bring online more infrastructure, increasing our power, communications and cooling requirements, at what point does the cost of doing so being to align with the benefits of deploying the infrastructure? As we have to start declaring the carbon footprint of the data center, reporting how our business is being socially responsible, will we see more business move their data center to ‘carbon neutral data centers’, to using fresh air cooling for example?  Are Scotland, Norway and Iceland for example the next data center hosting areas to watch?

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