LCRDC have today launched a new Micro Data centre,located in Liverpool City Centre.
Strategically located at one of the highest points in the city centre and in the former moat of Liverpool Castle, between James Street and Castle Street, this underground Micro Data Centre is an on-site facility for the local retail, offices cultural and nightlife economy.
This Liverpool City Centre Colocation facility is ideal for edge nodes and low latency, 5G, Internet of Things, Immersive and real-time applications that require data to be closer to the end user.
Available space for customers include Single U, Multi U and Quarter Rack options with low power density requirements for small servers, single board computers and similar appliances, with roof access available for radio/antenna installations.
Previously, offering Data Centre space had been a service that has enhanced customers digital connectivity by allowing them to move their IT hardware outside of their office and into a Data Centre within the Liverpool City Region, while still being connected at LAN speeds and low latency.
Over the last 2 years, the demand for Data Centre space has risen, especially with the high costs of the cloud, more and more businesses are now looking at what they can do to keep their data local to their operations, quite often, just a few street away from their premises.
Baltic Broadband’s LCRDC is growing it’s data centres substantially this coming year and has plans to offer multiple small scale Data Centres that will provide Edge & Micro Colocation across Liverpool, Sefton, Knowsley, St Helen’s, Halton & the Wirral. These new generation of small scale data centres will help enable 5G applications, Media Streaming, Driverless Cars, Drone Deliveries, the Internet of Things, especially with such data centres being installed deep within Communities.