US datacentre provider IO has opened a new facility on the Slough Trading Estate and has confirmed that Goldman Sachs will be the first client using the datacentre.

The site covers 10,000m² with space to accommodate 90 high-density modules. IO has claimed that their new facility is top-of-the-range when it comes to security and efficiency.

“Each module has its own security. So, if you’re a bank or a customer with strong security requirements, you get your own locked room, as it were, within the datacentre,” IO managing director Nigel Stevens said.

“Most datacentres have trouble being efficient when they’re not full. Someone described the average datacentre setup as buying some beer, putting it on the kitchen table and turning on the air-conditioning to cool it down.

“With our approach, you only cool the parts you need to, which helps to make the whole thing far more efficient.”

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