This expansion on the ground floor of Reynolds House, where IFL already occupies over 17,000 square feet, will be the company's second in the last twelve months. It also further secures its position as the market leader of colocation services in the North West of England, says IFL.

IFL says it plans to make more large scale expansion announcements expected in the coming months, ensuring the company will continue to meet the increase in demand with high quality supply through its continued investment in new data centers.

"Much of our continued success can be attributed to the growth of our existing partners and customer base," says Matthew Edgley, IFL sales manager. "Recognition of this drives our commitment to provide a continuous supply of high quality rack space to facilitate their future growth."

To bring the new expansion space into service, a second on-site energy center will be built with a new 1MVA power supply, diesel generators and n+1 UPS system.

The facility will use state of the art air conditioning to ensure the lowest possible Energy Efficiency Ratio - a measure of how much additional electricity is used beyond that needed for servers. An additional 150 racks will be made available with an expected average power usage of 4.5KW per rack up to a maximum of 8KW per rack.

IFL facilities offer connectivity solutions from a wide selection of Tier 1 network providers including BT, Cogent, NTL, NWIX and THUS, all of whom have multiple resilient routes into the building. The IFL data center network is well connected to other data centers in the region through dedicated fiber networks such as MCIX and NWIX.

IFL signed a multi-year contract in March to host critical network infrastructure for Internet service provider Cogent Communications within its IFL2 Manchester, UK data center.