Facts

Lockerbie Data Centres Limited is part of the R&D Group, the major development and construction company in the Dumfries & Galloway region of Scotland. R&D Group acquired the 272 Acre (110 Hectare) site at Peelhouses Farm, north of Lockerbie, (click here to see where the Lockerbie Data Centres will be located) in April 2008 with a view to develop a 2.9 million square feet (272,000 square metre) data centre complex providing world-leading environmental performance and efficiency.

The data centre will be designed on a modular plan and the concept anticipates forty-two modules of 64,500 to 70,000 square feet (6,000 to 6,500 square metres) each. From this gross floor area, approximately 50% will be white floor area housing the server racks, and full compartmental sub-division of that space into ten or twelve cells will provide flexibility of fit-out specification and programme.

Each module will have a fully diverse, fully resilient power supply of 7.5 MegaWatts and similarly diverse and resilient fibre optic connections providing 4 x 10Gb Protocol Transparent, Low Latency, Fully Scalable telecommunications links.

The cool climate enjoyed in Lockerbie, and amplified by the site’s 700 feet (215 metres) of elevation, provides a perfect background for low-energy, ambient air cooling throughout the data centre, and with the significant resultant drop in electrical power for mechanical chilling plant the available power density on the white floor area will be around 2.5kW per square metre.

This section will provide you with all the numbers, from timescales to TIERS and £’s to P.U.E.’s, with links to the back-up information to be found elsewhere.