Vantage Data Centers has further expanded its Cardiff data centre campus - one of the largest facilities of its kind in Europe. The US provider of hyperscale data centres has completed a 12WM (megawatt) first phase of a second 40 MW facility - known as Vantage CWL 13 which will be developed out subject to customer demand.
It also has plans for a third data centre investment at its 46-acre campus in the Wentloog area of the capital. Once fully developed the site will provide 186,000 sq ft of 184 MW data centre facilities. The campus operates entirely on renewable energy sources. Data centre are used by companies and organisations to store, process and manage large amounts of data.
Vantage said its new facility in Cardiff boasts one of the lowest power usage effectiveness (PUE) ratios across all of its facilities. This is said is thanks in part to its energy efficient indirect evaporative free cooling system, which negates the need for compressors in the cooling cycle.
