Zen Internet, one of the UK's leading independent Internet Service Providers, has announced it is investing £4 million in a new purpose built data centre at its North West headquarters in Rochdale. The contract for the design and build of the new data centre has been awarded to the UK's leading communications infrastructure specialist, Sudlows.

Zen are building the new data centre and is in response to increased demand for capacity in the North West. Once complete the 1,350 sq m Tier 2 facility will be monitored around the clock by automated management systems, an onsite central monitoring team, CCTV and onsite Security Guards. The new data centre will be fitted out with state of the art power and evironmental management infrastructure providing 2MVA capacity. 

N+1 standby power generation and uninterruptible power will be supplied by Diesel Rotary Uninterruptible Power Supplies (DRUPS) ensuring Zen’s Hosting customers will get 100% uptime from their hosted services. Tthe new data centre is directly connected to Zen's fully diverse core network.