michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
England really needs more data centres to locate well away from London, closer to power generation sources.
Perhaps s/England/The UK/ (our Scottish, Welsh and NI countrymen run bits of the internet too ;) ). The real issue is not power. This seems like a self-perpetuating myth grown out of some whimsical excuse given for a lack of short-term expansion in the London Docklands area (a major economic development zone with significant infrastructure development underway.) As you yourself say, the UK is small, but moreover has a dense, reliable power grid. The biggest single base-load power station in the UK is only 100mi from London, but even then it's not anywhere you'd want to put a datacentre. IMO the real issue is going to be more related to the sustained economic growth in London which has driven up property prices there and in the South East of England, coupled with the same commercial growth requiring more colo space in itself. This is a situation which several colo operators seem well on the way to addressing. :-) Will