UK edge infrastructure and data centre provider, Pulsant, has opened its new £4.5 million data centre hall in Manchester. The new facility offers an additional data hall, expanding the facility by 320sqm and providing an additional 300kW of IT capacity.
The UK National Grid has predicted that quantum computing and artificial intelligence will cause a surge in energy use. The CEO of the National Grid, John Pettigrew, said the power usage in data centres will increase six-fold in the next ten years.
The primary FLAPD markets will see continued growth of 16% in 2024. However, the real opportunities for data centre operators and investors will likely lie in secondary urban markets like Madrid, Berlin, and Warsaw.