Behind the Scenes | Volta Data Centres


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Julian King, Commercial Director of Volta Data Centres, took Best Execution behind the scenes of London’s newest data centre.


In less than one year Volta has invested millions of pounds and approximately 150,000 man hours in stripping out and refurbishing the old Reuters data centre in Great Sutton Street. In Q2 this year, the fit out will be completed and the 91,000 square feet facility will open its doors. Julian King, Commercial Director of Volta Data


Centres gave Best Execution a tour of the site. Between inspecting cooling systems and checking out carrier rooms, we asked Julian about his ambitions for the data centre given its prime City location.


A considerable investment in a challenging climate, you must be confident that there is demand to be met? Absolutely. When we conducted our due diligence, we could see increasing demand for a high quality


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data centre from the ever-growing TechCity community on our doorstep and the City and financial services community in the Square Mile. We could see the driving changes across the global financial services industry. Looking at the equities markets over the past 5 or 6 years, competition has had a huge impact. New competitive exchanges and liquidity venues have been born, creating market fragmentation which in turn created new algorithmic trading and order routing technology. This has had an explosive impact on market data volumes. Just look at the demand this has placed on exchanges, trading firms and their vendor communities in terms of data centre space, demand for co-location, connectivity, power and bandwidth. Five years ago, if you had asked firms what they anticipated their requirements to be in 2013,


Best Execution | Spring 2013


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