Asanti Datacentres has acquired five UK data centres from Daisy Group.
Asanti was recently acquired by Invesis, the global investor and developer of infrastructure projects, which committed additional funding to secure acquisitions and develop new-build data centres in the UK and Europe.
Daisy Group’s data centre professionals have joined Asanti, headquartered in Hamilton, as part of the acquisition.
The Daisy Group data centres included in the deal are located in Hamilton, Birstall, Manchester, Reading and Farnborough.
Together, the Daisy data centres have a capacity of more than 1,500 racks located across the UK, providing clients with minimal data latency. The data centres are paired, each offering a nearby location to house disaster recovery systems, providing business continuity to their clients.
The Hamilton location is paired with Asanti’s existing data centre resource in Livingston. All the data centres are connected to a single national Mesh network, with a connection speed of over 100GB per second.
Daisy will remain the service provider and will become a client of Asanti. Daisy’s customers will continue to be hosted in the data centres - and their services will remain unchanged.
Stewart Laing, chief executive of Asanti, said: “Our aim is to provide state-of-the-art technology, with a short-term objective of utilising 100% renewable energy, and maintaining competitive solutions in the market.
“Most organisations have deployed, or are looking to deploy, a hybrid data centre model – a mix of legacy and private and public cloud infrastructures,“ he continued, explaining: “Companies currently using, or looking to use, colocation data centre facilities now have a better option with access to Asanti’s Regional Edge data centres.”
Chris Williams, chief executive at Invesis, said: “Data centre infrastructure is fundamentally important to many organisations and the Asanti team has a clear vision of its role in this market, both now and in the future – that’s why we’re backing them.”
Tom Glover, EMEA head of data centre transactions at JLL, which advised on the investment, commented: “Capital investments have been the focus of several data centre deals and, with a scarcity of opportunities, investors are having to get more creative in their deployment of capital.”
Last year, global data centre investment reached $47.1bn, up from $34.5bn in 2020. In Europe, investment in 2021 was five times higher than its five-year average, according to JLL.
Business and Trade Minister Ivan McKee added: “The Scottish Government is helping grow Scotland’s green data centre market sustainably, in partnership with public sector organisations like Host in Scotland and in line with goals in the National Strategy for Economic Transformation.
“This is a clear signal to the market that we have businesses with the ambition and capability to develop the sector, a key objective of the Scottish Government’s Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action Plan for Scotland.”
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