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The first phase of the colo data centre set up by new operator Aegis Data in leafy Surrey commute hotspot Goldalming was formally opened by Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt on Friday. The London data centre market, according to the firm's CEO, accounts for over half of the entire European data centre market. Most of the region's …

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  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    This will end in Floods of Tears

    It won't take much more than the recent rains to put a dampener on this site's operation. The River Wey is very close by and it flooded in Godalming over Christmas.

    Anon because I work close by this place.

  2. Andy The Hat Silver badge

    "Aegis One has standby generators powerful enough to supply 15,000 homes"

    Whoopy doo! Enough to power 100million electric toothbrushes on pulsey vibratey mode, but is this super-dooper generating station enough to power ... err ... a data centre perhaps? And for how long? Somehow the importance of this has been lost on me ...

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    “Tier 3 (n+1) resilient infrastructure, basically having two of everything”

    **Laughs**

    Free cooling up to 26˚C (source temperature) and 30kW racks.

    Sounds like they know what they are doing then.

  4. batfastad

    Cost effective

    Cost effective! Value for money! Efficient! Savings!

    Won't stop them charging 500% the market rate back to the gov though will it.

  5. Roj Blake Silver badge

    n+1 is not " having two of everything."

    It's having a single spare for everything - so if you need five gizmos you actually have six.

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