Virtus Says It Will Spend £500M to Double Its London Data Center Capacity

Virtus Data Centres, a major London data center provider, said Tuesday it will spend £500 million to add five data centers across its two existing campuses in the London market – one of the world’s largest data center markets. The addition of three facilities at Virtus’ Slough campus and two at its Stockley Park campus, launched just last year, will about double the ST Telemedia-owned provider’s capacity, according to the company. Demand for data center space in large European cites is growing quickly. While there is steady demand from traditional enterprises (banks, retailers, and so on), an unprecedented rate of growth in many top data center markets is being driven by hyperscale platforms, such as Amazon Web Services and Microsoft Azure. London, Europe’s largest data center market, is one of those places.