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Stellium Hosts Open Day with Submer, Open Compute Project, and OCP Partners to Showcase Immersion Cooling Innovation
Newcastle, UK – February 12, 2025 – Stellium Datacenters, in collaboration with Submer, the Open Compute Project (OCP), and OCP Partners, hosted an exclusive open day at Stellium’s state-of-the-art data centre. This event provided existing and prospective customers...
Immersion cooling OCP proof of concept completed at Stellium Datacenters’ UK HPC hyperscale facility
Deployment represents largest OCP stack in Europe Newcastle UK – 30 January 2025: Stellium Datacenters, a leading UK colocation operator and provider of innovative data centre infrastructure solutions, is pleased to announce the launch of an Open Compute Project (OCP)...
Stellium, Submer and Circle B Unite for OCP Liquid Cooling Technology Deployment in Newcastle
A Strategic Proof of Concept for Enhanced Data Centre Performance A strategic collaboration between Stellium Data Centres, Submer and Circle B has resulted in a proof of concept according to Open Compute Project (OCP) principles, with Submer’s immersion cooling...
Global mobile network operator collocates in UK’s Northeast
Stellium Data Centres and ITPS leverage Zayo Group’s network to win contract December – 12, 2023: Stellium Data Centres today announced a global mobile network operator has collocated at Stellium 1 in Newcastle and ITPS in County Durham as part of a joint hosting...
Stellium’s Newcastle Data Centre
OCP Ready™ certification from Open Compute Project Foundation Compliance eases the deployment of High Performance Computing (HPC), Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) IT hardware at scale by businesses. Newcastle, United Kingdom, August 14th 2023 –...
A Beginner’s Guide to Data Centre Cooling Systems
Data centres like Stellium house a considerable amount of electronic equipment, such as servers, which generate significant heat. If this heat isn't properly managed, it can lead to hardware malfunctions and failures. That's why data centre cooling is crucial. Some of...
What is the difference between a data centre and colocation?
A customer owned data centre is a facility that houses computing resources such as servers, storage systems, and networking equipment. It is typically maintained and managed by the business that owns it and houses its IT operations and equipment. Data centres provide...
What is a data centres role in cloud computing?
A data centre such as Stellium plays a crucial role in the infrastructure that enables cloud computing to work. Some of the main ways in which data centres contribute to cloud computing are: Male IT Specialist Holds Laptop and Discusses Work with Female Server...
Stellium subsea Cable Landing Partner Aqua Comms Partners with NYI to Expand Interconnection Capabilities in the U.S.
Partnership enables international subsea cable provider Aqua Comms to provide customers with cost-effective access to an extensive global interconnection ecosystem that runs from the U.S to the UK (landing at Stellium Newcastle) and on to mainland Europe. NEW YORK,...
Colt announces strategic expansion from Newcastle to New Jersey
Colt Technology Services connects Stellium Datacenters Newcastle directly with NJFX New Jersey over its new transatlantic backbone route. London, UK 31 May 2023– Colt Technology Services, the digital infrastructure company, today announced the expansion of its...
Moore’s Law impact on the development of the data centre sector
In light of the recent passing of Gordon Moore, we're discussing how we think Moore's Law will continue to be relevant. Why we think his 1965 prediction that the number of transistors on a chip will double every 24 months remained so accurate and how we summarise its...
Why should infrastructure and operations leaders implement a data centre infrastructure sustainability programme?
Implementing a data centre infrastructure sustainability program offers several benefits for infrastructure and operations leaders as seen at Stellium in Newcastle. From an environmental Impact, data centres consume significant amounts of energy and contribute to...
Stellium Datacenters implements battery storage and solar solution in Newcastle
Innovative sustainability measures will further reduce carbon footprint and customer power costs at Newcastle data centre Stellium Datacenters, one of the UK’s largest purpose built data centre campuses and a UK interconnection hub, has implemented an innovative...
Stellium Datacenters and ITPS forge strategic disaster recovery alliance
Newcastle, UK – 03 April 2023: Stellium Datacenters, owner and operator of one of the UK’s largest purpose-built data centre campuses, today announced a strategic partnership with ITPS, enabling the fast-growing County Durham headquartered technology services provider...
Stellium Datacentres Selects Schneider Electric Galaxy™ VM UPS for Industry-Leading Resilience and Efficiency
Stellium Datacentres owns and operates one of the UK’s largest, purpose-built, data centre campuses.It provides best-in-class data centre and connectivity services for fintech and high frequency trading, energy services, healthcare and pharmaceutical research...
CBRE North of England data centre market report released
Stellium Data Centres cited as viable alternative to London for hyperscalers Newcastle, UK – 20 February 2023: Stellium Data Centres and CBRE today announced the release of The North of England Data Centres Report. The report is available for free download here....
Data Centres for the Gaming Industry
Data centres for the gaming industry like Stellium are specifically designed to support the unique requirements of online gaming, such as low latency, high availability, and large amounts of gaming data storage and processing. Low Latency, High Availability Data...
Global Submarine cables and data centre connectivity
Global Submarine cables such as those which land at Stelliums Newcastle data centre play a crucial role in connecting data centers to the global internet. They provide high-speed, low-latency connectivity that enables the flow of large amounts of data between data...
Immersion Cooling For Data Centres
Data Centre Immersion cooling is a method of cooling data centres in which the IT equipment is submerged in a liquid coolant. This can provide several benefits over traditional air cooling methods for data centre customers, including: Increased cooling efficiency: The...
Sustainable Data Centres Powered By Wind Energy
Wind energy can be used to power data centres, such as here at Stellium, by using wind turbines to generate electricity. This helps us and our customers reduce carbon footprint and become more environmentally friendly. Dogger Bank Wind Farm Dogger Bank Wind Farm -...
News: Event To Process Role Of Datacentres In Oilfield Digitisation
Wednesday 16.03.2022 Newcastle: The operator of the UK’s largest purpose-built datacentre campus is to host an event to showcase how the facility can support the energy industry as the oilfield continues to digitise. Stellium Datacenters which has an office in...
News: Newcastle Meets London as LINX, NCL-IX and BSO form Strategic Partnership
The London Internet Exchange (LINX) and Newcastle Internet Exchange (NCL-IX) have announced a new partnership for the good of the internet and interconnection services in the UK. The agreement will see LINX and NCL-IX, operated by Stellium Data Centres, provide...
Stellium Data Centres makes new business development appointment for Scotland
Newcastle, 23th September 2021 – Stellium Data Centres, the UK’s largest purpose built and one of the fastest growing colocation and network data centre providers, is pleased to announce a key sales appointment in line with the company’s ongoing commitment and growth...
Stellium’s latest UK internet exchange goes live as part of a £250,000 network expansion delivered by PlanNet21 UK and Agile Networks
Indigenous technology services provider, PlanNet21 UK and its Juniper networking integration subsidiary, Agile Networks today announced the completion of a network expansion project for Stellium Datacenters, the UK’s largest purpose-built data centre campus, located...
Press Release: Altibox Carrier welcomes the launch of the UK’s latest Internet Neutral Exchange NCL-IX at Stellium Data Centres in Newcastle
Stavanger, Norway, March 22nd, 2021 – Altibox Carrier who owns, operates and builds fiber optic cables connecting end-users to content and enterprises to the digital cloud, today welcomed the launch of the UK’s latest Internet Neutral Exchange NCL-IX at Stellium Data...
Press Release: Stellium Datacenters & IX Reach, a BSO Company, Partnership Announcement
London, 3rd December 2020 – IX Reach, a BSO company, has announced its partnership with Stellium Datacenters which owns and operates the largest purpose-built carrier-neutral data centre campus in the UK. BSO is a global telecoms operator powering the digital age that...
Mission-critical bandwidth provider Zayo deploy a full set of lit fibre services at the Stellium Newcastle Datacentre
According to a report by the European Telecommunications Network Operators’ Association, compared to other advanced economies, Europe has significantly less coverage of fixed network infrastructure suitable for supporting ultra-high speed networks. Cable network...
Stellium Datacenters to support AI Growth Zone in North East UK
Cobalt Park data centre campus has the power and connectivity to support AI and Cloud workloads at scale Stellium Datacenters to support AI Growth Zone in North East UK Cobalt Park data centre campus has the power and connectivity to support AI and Cloud workloads at...
The Five Pillars of Data Centre Security
Server racks with telecommunication equipment in server room Data centre security at Stellium is paramount for ensuring the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the data stored by our customers. The five pillars of data centre security can be understood as...
Why is data centre connectivity important?
Data centre connectivity is crucial for several reasons: Performance: A well-connected data centre such as Stellium offers efficient, high-speed global connectivity which ensures faster data transfer, low latency, and high performance. This is vital for businesses as...
What is a data centre?
A data centre like Stellium is a physical facility where organisations (our customers) house their critical IT applications and data to run their business. It's essentially the brain of a company and serves as the central repository for the storage, management, and...
Press Release: Stellium Datacenters appoints James Cooper as New Business Sales Manager
Newcastle, UK – 17th May 2023: Stellium Datacenters, owner and operator of one of the UK’s largest purpose-built data centre campuses, today announced the appointment of James Cooper as New Business Sales Manager. His role is to help grow new client business at a...
Stellium Data Centres: It’s About Content and Eyeballs
There’s an old story told about how the supply of electricity evolved from power plants in houses serving the homeowners to the first street lighting provided by a centralised power station and then the development of centralised power stations supplying consumers...
Stellium Data Centres commits to Scotland
Newcastle, 14th September 2021 – Stellium Data Centres, the UK’s largest purpose-built and one of the fastest-growing co-location and network providers, has established a new Scotland office in Aberdeen. This comes as part of its growth strategy for the North UK. This...
NCL-IX Virtual Launch Webinar – Putting the North of England on the digital infrastructure map
The formal launch of NCL-IX, the UK’s newest Internet Exchange located at the Stellium Data Centre campus in the Northern Powerhouse of Newcastle UK. The webinar discusses the launch of the UKs latest Internet Exchange and how it enriches the connectivity for the...