Instant data on data centres
Out of the blue, your advice is sought on the letting of premises to be used as a data centre. You have only the haziest idea of what this involves. Here is what you do.
Having promised to ring back in 10 minutes, you use the breathing space to absorb everything that Robert Cottingham, of Richards Butler, has to say in
Now pick up the phone.
Further reading:
Instant data on data centres
Out of the blue, your advice is sought on the letting of premises to be used as a data centre. You have only the haziest idea of what this involves. Here is what you do.
Having promised to ring back in 10 minutes, you use the breathing space to absorb everything that Robert Cottingham, of Richards Butler, has to say in I-terms and e-conditions on p88 of Estates Gazette, 3 August 2002. You will learn, among other things, that: (i) it may be difficult to assign the operation to a particular (planning) use class; (ii) the expense and importance of fixtures and fittings will call for the clearest lease provisions on ownership, repairing obligations and insurance; and (iii) the prudent operator will house (and sometimes attend to) his customers’ servers under the terms of a carefully drawn licence, often called a co-location agreement.
Now pick up the phone.
Further reading:
It’s a wired world Estates Gazette 20 July 2002 p136: Piers Corfield argues that landlords should provide a top-quality, building-wide IT infrastructure for tenants
Spoilt for choice? Estates Gazette 22 June 2002 p139: Data centre accommodation in the UK
Rates ruling adds to woes of data centres’ landlords Estates Gazette 31 August 2002, p18
