Carrier-neutral colocation provider Telehouse has announced additional technical specifications of its 11-floor data center which is being constructed in the London’s financial district.

The North Two facility in the Docklands area will feature vertical indirect adiabatic evaporative cooling system that will help deliver an industry-leading PUE of 1.16. Meanwhile electricity will be provided to the site using a power grid sub-station owned and operated by Telehouse.

“25 years ago Telehouse set the benchmark for data centers, and today, Telehouse North Two continues that commitment,” said Hiroyuki Soshi, managing director of Telehouse Europe.

The North Two facility is set to be complete by the beginning of 2016.

Circuit board

The £135 million project was designed by Nicholas Webb Architects, a UK practice specializing in data center construction. The exterior of the building represents the conductive tracks of a printed circuit board, and will be illuminated at night.

North Two will be served by a 132kV grid substation located on the Docklands campus, which is capable of delivering capacity of up 18.5MW. Telehouse is the only UK data center operator that runs its own substation.

Inside, the facility will use hot aisle containment and adiabatic evaporative cooling, with N+1 redundancy on power, and N+2 on cooling.

North Two is Telecity’s fourth data center in the Docklands, sitting alongside the original Telehouse North - Europe’s first purpose-built neutral colocation facility and the primary home of the London Internet Exchange (LINX).

Being located nearby, North Two will instantly take advantage of 532 carriers, ISPs and ASPs that are already connected to the Docklands campus.

Telehouse is the data center subsidiary of Japanese telecommunications corporation KDDI. It has been offering colocation services in London since 1990. The expansion will bring the company’s total footprint in the city to 73,400 sq m, making it the largest data center provider in the UK capital by floor space.

In February, Telecity announced it will be acquiring its competitor Interxion in a deal worth $2.2 billion. Initially, the joint entity will be led by Interxion CEO David Ruberg.