Why a blog?

It all started with a passing comment by Iain a few weeks ago.. Wildcard is undergoing some major changes in the coming months, centralising around the development of our NE5 Datacentre just outside of Newcastle.

The past few months for us have been tough, meeting after meeting, plan after plan, many sleepless nights, along with a lot of distraction.. but now we are finally begining to see things taking shape. I woke up at 6am on Monday (the day our contractors began the civil works) actually really excited that things had started (sad as it is!), but I think that's what business is about, getting excited, and seeing what you have achieved.

Anyway back on track, why a blog... We wanted some way of reflecting on what we are doing, mainly for our purposes, but also thought others may be interested. As things develop we will keep this blog up to date.

Power Installation - NE5 Newcastle Datacentre

More photos from the civil works taking place to facilitate the installation of the power cabling from the substation to the NE5 Datacentre in Newcastle upon Tyne. Top shows on-site works by our Civil Engineering Contractor Roadtech in the rear car-park. Bottom shows trench works about 100 yds up from the site.

Work begins on our Newcastle NE5 data centre!

Today saw the begining of work on site to install the new power supply for our Newcastle NE5 data centre. Contractors began dig work this morning ready for installation of a new underground power cable running from the site back to the nearby substation. Last week work was underway at the substation to install a new transformer ready for the increase in supply.

When completed this will provide us with the 600KW of power required when the data centre is at full capacity.