Telecity Powergate

Telecity have some interesting definitions — making North Acton be ‘central london’. It’s basically at the back end of nowhere — however for a datacenter, you want out of town and space. It’s on the Central line, and about a 10m walk, so doable on public transport — however you’re not gonna want to carry a large amount of kit out there without driving (you can get away with 200k of equipment in a sainsbury’s trolly if you’re in Interxion, this ain’t gonna work here).
They’ve recently added a whole new building, meaning that if you have space in the old side, it’s now a long walk inside to get to your cage — you go in reception, then up, then across, then down.
Telecity are not my favorite data center provider, and Powergate is no real exception — the crash carts are hard to find, the snack machines are rubbish, and the food truck down the road is both terrible and only open 9 – 5. The security system is terrible (and flaky), with ‘smart’ card and retina recognition, which of course isn’t shared with other Telecity sites.
However, on positive notes — the man trap is an entire corridor, so when you get locked in it you have space to pace, and their remote hands have never changed the wrong disk in one of my production servers, so they’re better than some of the competition!