Cobalt Data Centre Campus

Press Release - 13/06/2011

Guy Marsden, Director, Highbridge Properties

The year of the Tablet - With a distributed and mobile workforce, why do you need a data centre?

After many false dawns, 2010 saw the real start of the tablet with the iPad, however 2011 is set to be the year of the tablet as competitors rush to come out with credible alternatives. The interesting challenge with the tablet is that, whilst conceived primarily as a consumer tool, more and more businesses are looking to adopt the technology from a corporate perspective. Companies like Mercedes Benz,...… <read more>

Press Release - 26th April 2011

Tony Nockling

Highbridge secures £263m funding to develop two further data centres at Cobalt Park

Developer Highbridge Properties has secured £263m of funding to expand its Cobalt Data Centre Campus near Newcastle. The two new state of the art facilities (DC2 and DC3), will comprise 5,760 square metres (62,000 sq ft) of net technical space within two new Tier III buildings. The funds have been raised by Taurus Asset Finance and Harcourt Capital through two Limited Liability Partnerships,...… <read more>

Press Release - 16th February 2011

Kieron Smith

Planning Consent Secured for Second Data Centre At Cobalt: Highbridge continues to invest in prime green facilities in the North East

North Tyneside Council has approved planning consent for a second state of the art green facility at the Cobalt Data Centre Campus near Newcastle. Developed by Highbridge properties and designed by award winning architects Woods Bagot, the 3,360 sq m speculative DC2 building will include four autonomous modular data halls comprising two 960 sq m halls and two 720 sq m halls. The facility is designed...… <read more>

Press Release - 10th August 2010

Kieron Smith

Cobalt Data Centre Awarded BREEAM Excellent Status: Newcastle to host one of the few 'green' data centres in the UK

Developer Highbridge Properties has announced that DC1, the first of two new data centres at Cobalt Park in Newcastle, has been awarded a BREEAM Excellent rating at the design stage assessment, making it one of the greenest in the United Kingdom. The state-of-the-art new build facility was assessed against a broad range of environmental impacts, such as energy, pollution, land use and materials, achieving...… <read more>

Press Release - 1st July 2010

Kieron Smith

New Data Centre at Cobalt Park, Newcastle on track to achieve a PUE of 1.3

DC1, the first of two speculative data centre facilities on the Cobalt business park in Newcastle, is on track to achieve the impressive PUE (Power Usage Effectiveness) energy efficiency rating of 1.3. Guy Marsden, Director, Highbridge Properties, comments: "A PUE rating of 1.3 would seem to put us in the top 1 percent bracket of energy efficient data centres in the world, according to recent...… <read more>

Press Release - 24 June 2010

Kieron Smith

Cobalt Data Centre reaches major milestone: Highbridge Properties announce practical completion of state of the art data centre facility

Developer Highbridge Properties has announced that the first of their two new Data Centre facilities on Cobalt Park in Newcastle has completed construction and is ready for bespoke tenant fit out. Construction began on 'DC1' in September 2009, with the building marking completion with a "topping out" ceremony in April 2010, and final practical completion at the end of June, in time for this...… <read more>

Press Release - 9th April 2010

Andrew Lambert

Kenneth Clarke "Tops Out" Data Centre at Cobalt

Shadow business secretary Kenneth Clarke has "topped out" a 4,262 sq m data centre at the Cobalt Data Centre Campus in North Tyneside - next to Cobalt Park, the largest office park in the UK. Using a rubber mallet Mr Clarke tapped into place a curtain walling pressure plate to mark the "topping out" of the building that comprises four data halls and is due for completion in July....… <read more>

Press Release - 2nd November 2009

Kieron Smith

UK technology sector backs the construction of Cobalt Park Data Centre Campus:

Tom Wills-Sandford, the Deputy Director General of Intellect, the leading trade association for the UK's technology sector, officially marked the start of construction of Cobalt Business Park's new 10,262 sq m Data Centre Campus on Friday. A 'groundbreaking' event was held at the Newcastle business park to celebrate the commencement of construction of the state-of-the-art campus, with guest of honour...… <read more>

Press Release - 19 October 2009

Kieron Smith

Countdown to completion of the UK's only speculative new-build data centre as cobaltdatacentre.com launches

The developer of the only speculative data centre currently being built in the UK has launched a website designed to allow visitors to track construction progress over the next 12 months. The cobaltdatacentre.com site will feature two webcam channels streaming real time images of the construction of the 4,262 sq m net new build data centre - and a second, refurbished facility of up to 6,000 sqm net...… <read more>

Press Release - 16 October 2009

Kieron Smith

Bowmer & Kirkland appointed on Highbridge Properties' speculative data centre development at Cobalt

Construction group Bowmer & Kirkland has been appointed by Highbridge (NTCO) Limited as contractors on their speculative 4,262 sq m data centre at Cobalt Business Park near Newcastle - the only new build speculative data centre currently under development in the UK. Separately there are plans to refurbish an existing facility to provide an additional 6,000 sq m of technical space. The state...… <read more>

Press Release - 2nd October 2009

Kieron Smith

Planning Consent Secured for Cobalt Park Data Centre Campus: Speculative Development to Deliver Green Facilities for the North East

North Tyneside Council has approved planning consent for a new state-of-the-art, 'green' data centre campus at Highbridge Properties Cobalt Park near Newcastle. The developer intends to deliver 10,262 sq m of Tier III technical space on the UK's largest office park, providing an unusually high standard of specification for bespoke data centre space anywhere outside of London and the South East....… <read more>

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