Major projects currently underway include a £1 billion hyperscale facility in Wales by HPE, and a £700 million data centre development in Greater Manchester by Equinix. In the UK, a wave of new construction is underway, driven by cloud computing and the ever-increasing demand for data storage and processing. In September, a data center fire in Singapore disrupted numerous technology companies and damaged critical infrastructure, including battery rooms and power supply rooms. In the same month, India's largest telecom provider experienced a nationwide network outage due to a blaze at one of its data. All our modular room builds have options to meet NPSA forced entry standards for the protection of UK Government assets, information or critical national infrastructure. Rooms are designed and built so they can be shipped anywhere – conforming to the toughest standards including: LPS 1175 SR1 to. The UK currently has approximately 10 million square metres of data centre space, spanning around 1,250 commercial facilities, wi h expectations for significant growth.
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