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NEXT GENERATION DATA OPENS FOR BUSINESS AND GETS BACKING FROM RBS’ LOMBARD
28th October 2009
Next Generation Data Ltd, the self-funded UK private owner and operator of the new Next Generation Data mega data centre in South Wales, announces it has secured significant debt finance facilities from Lombard, the asset finance arm of The Royal Bank of Scotland. This is to help support the investment required for infrastructure equipment to fit out data halls inside the massive 75,000 sq metre building for the company’s first major blue chip customers. These are moving their extensive data centre operations into the Next Generation Data Centre from early next year.
The £200 million project commenced eighteen months ago to convert the former LG Electronics semiconductor plant near Newport, South Wales, into a state-of-the-art Tier 3 data centre. Next Generation Data has the flexibility to accommodate the current and future expansion requirements of the very largest corporate customers 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 the opportunity to consolidate their operations in the Next Generation Data Centre which offers some of the best value available within its existing infrastructure.
Next Generation Data is one of the biggest and best equipped data centres in Europe and among its many unique features is a high capacity 180 MVA power supply direct from the super grid which ensures significantly more capacity than typical data centres, as well as on-site high-speed, low latency fibre network connections from the major telecoms carriers. Inside the massive three-floor 75,000 sq metre building a number of separate data halls of varying sizes are available all with independent services, resilient power supply and cooling systems.
Capable of housing up to 19,000 server racks, Next Generation Data has been purpose built to support the high level technology infrastructure necessary to meet growing global demand for secure, environmentally-friendly data storage and processing. This includes capacity for supporting the power-hungry and intensive computing environments needed to support Cloud Computing, Super Computing and Grid Computing.
The Next Generation Data Centre assures a highly secure environment through a range of measures including triple-skinned walls, bomb proof glass, prison grade perimeter fencing, infra-red detection, biometric recognition and ex-special forces security guards.
In addition to the state-of-the-art data centre infrastructure and services provided, Next Generation Data will offer sophisticated office space for customer technical support and administration teams, with meeting rooms and conference suites available 24 hours a day.
“In a very tough economic climate Next Generation Data is delighted to have won the support of Lombard which is absolutely critical to making this huge project possible,” said company chairman Simon Taylor, who co-founded the business with fellow industrialist, Nick Razey in early 2007. “We have always enjoyed a strong and very supportive relationship with the Welsh government but to have earned the additional backing of Lombard is indicative of the bank’s confidence in our business fulfilling its considerable potential.”
Steve Guy, Origination Director at Lombard commented: “Lombard is very pleased to be providing debt finance for this exciting project. Apart from creating jobs locally and attracting new businesses into the area, Next Generation Data is a fantastic advertisement to UK and international businesses looking to set up or relocate their operations.”
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