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This area of London also provides lower rental costs compared to West London locations , combined with greater transport infrastructure . As a result , data centre operators , including hyperscale , are moving east as they continue to provide cloud , networking and internet facilities at scale .
Green Mountain grows East London presence Green Mountain is one such company committed to its East London strategy , expanding its campus development in Romford , referred to as LON-East .
Simon explains how the LON-East build is based on strategic growth : “ We ’ re expanding our Romford campus by 30MW over two buildings . The first 14MW is currently under construction and will be ready in the second half of 2025 . We ’ ve chosen to build the full 14MW speculatively to have capacity available quickly , in a market where demand exceeds supply and most new capacity coming online is already pre-let .”
The first 14MW of capacity is an expansion of the existing data centre which has been operational since 2010 . The building was originally an old tobacco warehouse , which had been converted to a large distribution centre .
The remaining 16MW of capacity will be a new building , taking the total campus capacity to just under 40MW .
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