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The Bunker has announced that final planning permission has been granted for The Bunker2, a new 12,000 sq m high specification carrier-neutral London contingency data centre on its existing military level, ISO 27001 accredited security site in Sandwich, Kent.

The Bunker2; will be situated at the hub of the main UK to Europe Internet routes, offering high-speed, non-London reliant links to Europe, the US and traditional ‘at risk’ London Internet hubs, while perfectly positioned to provide London-based data centres with long awaited N+1 redundancy. The new facility will be supported by 2,000 sq m of rentable support and office accommodation manned 24/7/365 by CRB screened security and technical personnel.

Source: The Bunker

A fire at a major carrier hotel in Toronto left several data centre customers offline for hours over the weekend. Peer 1 Networks reported that a fire broke out at 2:26 am Sunday in an eighth-floor electrical room at 151 Front Street, the city’s primary telecom hub. The fire broke out in a section of Peer 1 Networks’ colocation facility housing UPS equipment, causing power to be shut off to the seventh and eight floors, and prompting a vigorous response from Toronto emergency services, which dispatched at least 17 fire units to the building.

“There was a fire which was localized to the 802 Suite UPS room within the 151 Front Street Facility,” Peer 1 reported on its forum. “The Fire Department mitigated the fire with dry chemical and CO2 extinguishers. No water was used, and all PEER 1 equipment (with the exception of the UPS), and ALL client equipment is unharmed.” Peer 1 said it was able to bypass the UPS system – which typically is positioned between the utility feed and the data centre – and restore power to the affected areas by 5 am Eastern time Sunday morning.

Source: Data Center Knowledge