Kao Data has announced KLON-03 – a new 17.6MW high performance data centre located at its Harlow campus.
The centre is powered by 100% renewable energy, and purpose-built to accommodate hybrid-cooling technology, and will enable Al users to deploy multi-megawatts of direct-to-chip, liquid cooled infrastructure, alongside traditional air-cooled servers within the same technology suite.聽
It is also in close proximity to London’s low-latency internet exchanges.
鈥淭his year marks ten years since our vision for the Harlow campus was first-incepted, and I’m delighted that our concept continues to be vindicated, with Harlow firmly established as the UK’s preeminent destination for HPC, Al cloud and GPU-supported deployments,鈥� said David Bloom, founder and chairman, Kao Data.聽
鈥淜LON-03 will set a new bar for our industrial-scale data centre platform, and in line with the Governments Al Opportunities Action Plan, will provide one of the country’s largest footprints of liquid-cooled data centre capacity.鈥�
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The Essex-based firm says KLON-03 will incorporate a raft of measures to underpin next-generation Al workloads.聽
Each technology suite will include hybrid-cooled, hot aisle containment (HAC) systems, which can accommodate high-density compute and GPU-accelerated server infrastructure, together with rack densities of up-to 130kW.
All deployments will include digital twins functionality to ensure customers鈥� compute footprints are optimal.
Doug Loewe, CEO, Kao Data, added: 鈥淭he era of Al is firmly with us, and what better way to celebrate UK Al innovation than on the campus at which Sir Charles Kao first-pioneered fibre optics.聽
鈥淚’m proud of the way our technical team has continued to finesse the design envelope, and am excited to see our first, large-scale, liquid-cooled infrastructure deployment become a reality.鈥�
The announcement comes after Kao Data commenced work on the construction of its new 拢350m data centre in Stockport last October.
That project is set to go live by 2026.
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