Data Centre Magazine August 2021 | Page 12

GLOBAL NEWS

1 UNITED KINGDOM

Kao Data becomes the first UK campus to switch from diesel to HVO fuel
Kao Data , which operates one of the UK ’ s densest high performance computing ( HPC ) campuses in Harlow between London and Cambridge , has become the first data centre in the UK to switch out its dieselfueled backup generators to run on renewable , low-carbon hydrotreated vegetable oil ( HVO ).

2 FRANCE

Interxion selected to anchor new cross channel fibre
The English channel is getting its first fibre route in two decades . Crosslake Fibre is currently in the process of building a 520 kilometre subsea fibre optic cable to join the UK with mainland Europe , which will be anchored in Interxion ’ s Paris campus .
12 August 2021