Green Mountain Commits to an Ambitious Growth Strategy

The UK data centre market is currently facing unprecedented pressures on its infrastructure. Power constraints in traditional data centre locations, combined with increasing demand for land, is inevitably creating challenges for operators seeking to expand their footprint. 

These pressures are only intensified by the demands of AI and high-performance computing (HPC), which can require anywhere between 25 to 120 kilowatts (kW) (or more)  of power per rack compared to 5-10kW for traditional compute.

Such a dynamic market is driving strategic shifts in where data centre operators choose to locate their facilities. Within this context, Green Mountain, a data centre operator providing colocation services, is expanding its London footprint with a 30-megawatt (MW) campus development in Romford, East London. 

The company is aiming to deliver its first 14MW phase in 2025, targeting AI/HPC capabilities, whilst also maintaining its focus on sustainability through renewable energy use and efficient design.

“East London has no power constraints, has land available, and is built around connectivity,” says Simon Blackburn, Managing Director of Green Mountain UK. “It has lower rental costs than West London and hugely convenient transport links. We can see that the market is starting to move East with the West being saturated and Green Mountain is ideally placed to support this.”

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