Redstation has announced that its £1.5m data centre development Rackcentre 1 in Gosport, Hampshire, is in the final stages of construction. There has been significant interest in the new facility from both local and regional businesses looking for a highly secure and fully redundant data centre outside of London. As a significant amount of rack space has already been pre-sold Redstation is now in the very early stages of planning Rackcentre 2 and is currently reviewing several suitable locations in the Southampton/Portsmouth area.

CH2M HILL's Managed Services line of business is opening a new 5,000 square-foot data centre facility with the option to expand to a total 20,000 square-feet. The acquisition of the new data centre space allows CH2M HILL to expand their operations beyond their global data centres located at CH2M HILL's corporate headquarters, the Managed Services headquarters, as well as national data centres located in Atlanta, Geogia and Idaho Falls, Idaho.

i/o Data Centers has launched a new state-of-the-art Tier 4 managed data centre, located in the Perimeter Business Center business park in North Scottsdale, Arizona, which will be fully operational by July 1, 2007. The site features 12 Mw of redundant power, standby diesel generators, and highly robust mechanical systems supporting in excess of two acres of raised floor data centre space. i/o Data Centers is the data centre operations affiliate of private equity firm IO Capital, LLC.

Q9 Networks Inc, a Canadian provider of outsourced data centre infrastructure, has opened its new Toronto data centre. The C$20 million facility, which has a capacity of 1,000 cabinet equivalents, is the first of three major expansion projects to open. The other projects include a second data centre in Calgary and a significant expansion of the existing Brampton data centre. When complete, these expansions will establish Q9 as one of the largest operators of data centre facilities in Canada with a projected total capacity in excess of 7,500 cabinet equivalents.

Easyspace has opened an 8000 Square feet data centre facility near to Glasgow's 'New Media' district last week to accommodate strong growth from the internet and enterprise markets as well as to provide expansion for its own network. The company has redeveloped an existing facility within 3km of the city centre into a state of the art data centre. The new facility has dual resilient and direct fibre links to London with individual racks able to support up to 8kW.

SoftLayer Technologies announced the addition of a new data centre designed to create maximum automation, efficiency and control in all facets of the outsourced environment. With over 500 watts per square foot and several hundred tons of cooling capacity, the new facility is created for mass deployment of infrastructure with a power rating of 12kW per rack. Located in Dallas, Texas, Phase One of the new facility went online with 5,000 square feet of usable space able to house over 12,000 servers.

Diveo, the telecoms provider for corporate business in Colombia, is investing USD2 milion (4.440 milion pesos) to launch its data centre business during 2007. Arturo Wills, the company president, said this investment is in line with the company's interest to grow in the corporate segment. The resource will be used to enlarge the data centre installations in Bogota. However, Diveo may well have to build a second data centre. The company has the intention to grow its corporate internet business, targeting new deals with medium size companies.