VIRTUS Embarks On One of the European Data Centre Industry’s Biggest Construction Programmes

London, United Kingdom, 22 January 2019 – VIRTUS Data Centres (VIRTUS), the UK’s fastest growing data centre provider, announced today that it is embarking on one of the biggest construction undertakings of any operator in Europe with the simultaneous construction of five additional data centres across its London sites. 

This expansion is to meet ever-growing customer demand for flexible, high quality and well-connected colocation space at scale in London. During the next two years, VIRTUS, backed by global heavyweight ST Telemedia Global Data Centres (STT GDC), is committing over £500m to the launch of the five new data centres in the London market, and the completion of its existing four live sites in Slough, Hayes and Enfield. The five new sites, which go live in 2019 and 2020, will add 76MW to VIRTUS’ London portfolio, doubling the total portfolio size to 145MW. 

Neil Cresswell, CEO of VIRTUS Data Centres commented, "“VIRTUS and our global platform partners, ST Telemedia Global Data Centres and GDS are leading the market in providing our customers flexible, high quality colocation at scale. Our enterprise and cloud customers have capacity and speed to market challenges in key markets like London. Our ability to deliver large amounts of capacity, faster and at a lower cost than other operators is solving these issues for them. We believe this scale and speed are two key factors which led VIRTUS to achieve over 50 per cent market share in London in 2018. It’s critical that we continue building data centres near existing footprints in a campus format, with huge scale and on dense existing fibre routes, to help serve our customers better in this fast-growing market.” 

Bruno Lopez, Group CEO of ST Telemedia Global Data Centres added, “As one of the leading financial capitals of the world and a major hub for business activities in Europe, the UK data centre market has been growing at a robust pace over the last few years. VIRTUS’ ability to add capacity on a large scale in the UK is part of STT GDC’s continuing investment to best serve the digital infrastructure needs of customers and provide them with the flexibility and scalability required for their business plans. We are confident that we will be able to help VIRTUS build on the success of its UK operations and continue to offer one of the leading and fastest-growing data centre platforms in the country.” 

Read the full news release from VIRTUS here.