Datum company profile

Connected. Secure. Accessible

Datum’s highly connected London-edge site is located on an ultra-secure and easily accessible campus in Farnborough (part of a strategic London-edge colocation cluster). It is a Tier 3+, 2N power data centre with capacity for 1,200 footprints (a further 1,200 footprints to be added by 2025) providing a maximum power density of 30kW per rack and low latency to London.

Datum takes a service first approach (the 'Datum difference') providing support throughout the lifecycle of the contract, bespoke service offerings, a dedicated engineering team, proactive and insightful reporting and bespoke account management.

Key to Datum's proposition is its proven environmental efficiency — Tier 3+ power and cooling solutions, a 100% power availability SLA, energy from renewable sources, full carbon offsetting, and state-of-the-art adiabatic cooling delivering a PUE of 1.25 and effective cooling of high-power densities.

Datum timeline

• 2012: Datum Datacentres launched (FRN1) to provide a robust colocation service for business-critical IT.
• 2016: Became standalone entity (previously a group company of Attenda) and completed a large capacity upgrade.
• 2020: The phased build-out of FRN1 began adding a further 700 footprints on the first floor of FRN1.
• 2021: Acquired by UBS Asset Management, providing Datum with the capital to expand its existing successful model.
• 2022: Datum acquired Teledata — its first bolt-on regional acquisition as part of its regional expansion strategy.