Our growth and unwavering focus on service excellence and sustainability

Datum originated as the sister company of a high-end managed service provider and these roots have contributed to Datum’s service-focused approach.

We announced in July 2012 that we had secured funding to develop our flagship datacentre (FRN1) on Cody Technology Park in Farnborough site providing enterprise grade facilities:

• 2N power, N+1 cooling (Tier 3 equivalent)
• environmentally intelligent adiabatic cooling
• certifications to all expected ISO certifications and operationally to DCA Level 3
• sustainable power procurement (most recently including 100% renewables and carbon offset)

After a stringent selection process, we commissioned Keysource to carry out the design and build of FRN1 based on Keysource’s extensive experience with modular design and build. The construction of these facilities was to be a staged development that would allow capacity to be expanded over time to meet customer demand without impacting performance.

Our Farnborough facility was designed and built from the ground up to provide secure, resilient and environmentally intelligent colocation and first-class service. By January 2013, the first phase of the development (the ground floor of FRN1) was completed. The two ground floor data halls provide capacity for 500 racks at an average density of 3.5kW per rack with the capability of operating at high density (up to 30kW).

Since 2013, we have attracted an impressive client list including organisations from the public and private sector serving a wide range of vertical markets including finance, IT security, defence and engineering, and including companies from the FTSE 250 and Fortune 500. After a few years, it became clear that demand for our service-based colocation required us to move on to the next phase of development.

To facilitate our seamless expansion on our Farnborough site, and to cater to demand from businesses looking for a resilient and scalable foundation for their business-critical IT, we are excited to have the next stage of development in our sights.

We have secured planning permission for the creation of a new state-of-the-art facility (FRN2). This facility will be link-detached to FRN1 and designed to Tier 3+ resilience. FRN2 will give us capacity for a further 1,000 racks across four 1MW data halls. Like the upper floor of FRN1, space in this new facility can be built out to our enterprise grade specifications or can be made available for custom technical design (including larger footprints for businesses seeking sizeable data centre placements) while retaining the benefits of our high service levels, a secure location within Cody Technology Park and established connectivity.