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Welcome to Kao Data

Kao Data leads the industry, pioneering the development and operation of data centres engineered for AI and advanced computing. With hyperscale-inspired facilities east and west of London, and northern England’s largest data centre planned for Greater Manchester, we are home to technology’s most demanding computing infrastructure.

Our award-winning, NVIDIA DGX-Ready certified data centres are designed, engineered and operated by one of the industry’s most respected teams. Together, this provides colocation customers deploying mission critical AI, enterprise and cloud workloads with a secure, scalable and sustainable compute environment, backed by a guarantee of 100% uptime.

Kao Data’s data centre portfolio includes more than 160MW of IT-load either currently operational, under development or planned – all of which is under-pinned by the highest energy efficiency, sustainability and ESG credentials.

Backed by leading international investors, and with several pioneering ‘industry firsts’ to our name, Kao Data represents the future in industrial scale, high-capacity data centres for AI and the next generation of compute.

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Our Journey So Far

It's been a busy decade for Kao Data!

2014
September

Kao Data founded by Goldacre - Noe

2018
January

Kao Data campus operational (KLON-01)

October

Kao Data achieves OCP-Ready status

2019
February

Legal & General Capital investment

June

Datacloud Global Award Winners

July

Client Win: ServerChoice

September

Client Win: EMBL-EBI

2020
February

ASHRAE Award Winners

July

Client Win: Aerospace/Defence customer

September

Client Win: Instadeep

December

Client Win: NVIDIA

2021
May

Kao Data achieves NVIDIA DGX-Ready status

May

Client Win: CIVO

July

Kao Data becomes Europe's first operator to transition from mineral diesel to renewable HVO fuel in back-up generators

July

Inauguration of NVIDIA Cambridge-1, the UK's fastest AI supercomputer

August

Client Win: Two Financial Services customers

October

Northolt (KLON-05) and Slough (KLON-06) acquired – capacity increased to 55MW

October

Infratil Limited investment

December

Kao Data and NVIDIA win 'Operations Team of the Year' at DCD Awards for the 20 week deployment of the Cambridge-1 supercomputer

2022
January

Construction commences of KLON-02 (Harlow)

May

Client Win: Speechmatics

June

Kao Academy is launched, inspiring young people into tech and the data centre industry

July

Construction commences of KLON-06 (Slough)

2023
February

Client Win: Hyperscale Cloud Provider

March

Client Wins: Kyndryl, Two Financial Services customers

May

New 40MW data centre development in Greater Manchester announced

September

David Bloom appointed Chairman

October

Infratil becomes majority shareholder

November

KLON-02 (Harlow) operational

November

Redevelopment of KLON-06 (Slough)

2024
January

£206M Debt raise with Deutsche bank to accelerate expansion

January

Work commences on KLON-03 (Harlow)

January

Doug Loewe joins as CEO

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