Development has started on the expansion of Scotland's largest commercial datacentre in Edinburgh.

Construction is underway on Pulsant's South Gyle site which will see the addition of two secure data halls to the Tier Three facility.

Features include autonomous redundancy and increased efficiency and a boost to capacity, with other 150 new racks being installed.

The project also includes the addition of new build and configuration rooms, along with secure storage areas.


The new centre will be ISO27001, 14001 and PCI-DSS compliant, as well as part of the G-Cloud and Scottish Government frameworks.

The facility is one of ten owned by Pulsant, currently supporting over 800 racks and 12 Mw of power in two secure, purpose-built datacentres.

The centre will incorporate direct fibre access to a wide range of service providers and carriers, and will also make use of blended evaporative and fresh air cooling technologies and onsite high voltage network to ensure 2N delivery of power to each rack.

Matt Lovell, Pulsant CTO, says: "We’re delighted to break ground and see the planning come to fruition.

"This project is part of our overall expansion strategy and came about due to a real need in the region for additional secure datacentres able to deliver the best technology solutions in terms of uptime, redundancy and support."

Development is expected to be complete in August 2015.

(LM)