GPU capacity in London.
London and the Slough corridor form one of Europe's oldest and densest data centre markets, and one of its most power-constrained. Since Brexit, the hardware also has a border to cross.
What decides a deployment in this metro.
Why buyers come here, and what they run into.
The west London corridor around Slough has anchored UK digital infrastructure for two decades, and the City's financial demand keeps latency-sensitive workloads anchored here. For anything where proximity to UK financial infrastructure matters, that case holds.
Grid capacity in west London became a widely reported constraint, and it has not fundamentally resolved. For AI densities the qualifying building list narrows further, and connection timelines are measured in years rather than months.
The design that actually works.
For UK buyers the practical answer is increasingly geographic: keep what genuinely needs London in London, and place sustained training in Manchester, Cardiff, the north or offshore where power is available.
The import leg is now a real consideration too. We price UK deals landed, including customs entry and import VAT treatment, so an EU supplier's ex-works quote can be compared honestly. Details on the United Kingdom desk and the import and IOR desk.
Start from what is verified.
Current verified lines with quantities, lead times and indicative pricing are public on the live inventory. Anything not listed becomes a sourcing requirement with a first pass inside one business day.
Colocation in London, through the same desk.
The desk sources colocation, racks and power in this metro as well as the compute that fills them. London splits between latency-bound Docklands and Slough, where the AI-ready capacity actually is. Requirements come to us as three numbers: megawatts at day one, kilowatts per rack, and the date. The space and power desk takes it from there, and above 40 kW per rack we will tell you honestly how short the local shortlist is.
Asked first, answered straight.
Yes. Space, power and cooling in this metro route through the same desk as the compute, priced against your density and date. Above 40 kW per rack the local shortlist narrows quickly, and we say so rather than tour you through halls that cannot take the load.
For modest deployments and latency-critical workloads, sometimes. For a large training cluster, west London is rarely the answer on any reasonable timeline. We qualify on energised power, not planned sites.
Hardware from the EU now faces a full customs entry with classification, duty where applicable and import VAT. It is recoverable for VAT-registered businesses, but it changes both the paperwork and the landed price.
Manchester, Cardiff and the north offer better power availability, and continental options often price better still. Keep inference in London and connect privately.
Yes. Freight, insurance, customs entry, duty and import VAT are part of the same desk, quoted as a landed cost.
Working through this on a real requirement?
Twenty minutes with the desk, no pitch and no quote at the end of it. Tell us roughly what you need and we will come back within one business day.
Sent. We are on it.
Your enquiry has landed with the desk. Acknowledged within one hour.