UK Data Centre pricing one of the highest in Europe finds new report

Regional data centres offer lower costs

ReportBuyer.com the leading website for market research reports has added the Data Centre Pricing UK – 2012 shows that the UK data centre market is the largest in Europe with almost 470,000 square metres of raised floor space – which is forecast to increase by 35% to 767,000 square metres of raised floor space by the end of 2017. At the same time average UK rack space pricing remains relatively high at above€1,000 per month.

The main reason for the increase in data centre development is the growth in new campus-based data centres outside of the London area which will also act as a constraint on forecast future average rack space price increases.

Average Data Centre pricing will be maintained in part by the bundling of power with rack space for a single monthly rental fee – with selected data centre providers offering power bundles of up to 4kW per rack.

The report forecasts that average customer power per Data Centre facility will increase from 5.5MW (as of the end of 2012) up to 7.4MW (as of the end of 2012). In turn, average customer power per metre will increase from 1.08kW to 1.12kW over the same period.

But there remains a wide spread of pricing in the UK market with the development of regional data centre facilities with pricing per square metre that ranges from €197 per month up to €507 per month. Regional data centre facilities (those outside London) are offering lower cost average pricing from a larger site.

Code: TRC00030

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