Data Centres overview

Our data centre group offers market leading expertise across a range of specialist services tailored to developers, operators and end-users and their specific needs

The market for data centre services is changing. New virtualisation technologies and higher bandwidth connections are making it possible to meet end-users’ requirements for scalability, capacity and efficiency in new ways and using new contractual models.

We provide strategic, commercial and effective legal solutions to our clients’ technology, energy and property issues. In difficult market conditions we understand the opportunities, pitfalls and hurdles, how they impact our clients.

Our cross-practice team of over 25 lawyers provide our clients with a complete range of key services and expertise having advised on a number of market leading data centre deals for names such as Land Securities and JP Morgan.

Our latest alerts, briefings & reports
  • Owning and occupying data centres: Ignore any property issues at your peril  
Data centres are becoming increasingly popular, used by banks, telecoms companies, web-hosting firms and others to house computer systems, telecoms and client-sensitive data. View full briefing
  • Data Centres: Green Issues   
Data centres are responsible for at least 1 per cent of global electricity consumption and this is on the rise. Data centres use 20 times the amount of energy as equivalent sized offices. In 2007 worldwide emissions from data centres topped 170 million tonnes of carbon. By 2020 carbon emissions from data centres are predicted to quadruple, outstripping those of the airline industry. This has led to increased interest in ensuring their energy efficiency. Furthermore, with the introduction of the CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme (CRC) to the UK in April 2010, new obligations will be imposed on major energy users (any organisation that used at least 6,000MWh of half-hourly electricity during 2008 will qualify for the scheme) such as data centres. The European Commission has also recently released a Code of Conduct on Data Centres relating to their energy efficiency. View full briefing
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