
Data centre colocation procurement: how enterprise organisations actually source capacity
The UK colocation market is not a buyer’s market. Vacancy across London fell to 8% in Q1 2026 and CBRE projects it will reach 5.9%
Guidance on enterprise data centre procurement — how to structure requirements, engage operators, and navigate the market efficiently at scale. If you’re in the market to deploy and gather data centre capacity, this is for you.

The UK colocation market is not a buyer’s market. Vacancy across London fell to 8% in Q1 2026 and CBRE projects it will reach 5.9%

Data centre site selection in the UK has been inverted. The criteria that drove site acquisition decisions for most of the sector’s development history —

Enterprise data centre procurement has changed significantly over the past three years. The process that most large organisations ran in 2021 — identify a requirement,

Finding data centre colocation in the UK has become significantly harder. The national vacancy rate is at 8%, London is at 7%, and take-up has

The UK data centre market is running at 8% vacancy, with 96% of new capacity pre-let before completion. In that environment, how demand gets matched

GPU colocation has become one of the most searched and most competitive categories in the UK data centre market. Organisations deploying AI workloads at scale

Two numbers get conflated constantly in AI infrastructure conversations: the cost of energy, priced in pence per kilowatt-hour, and the cost of deployed compute capacity,

The UK data centre capacity market has fundamentally changed. What was once a buyer’s market, with operators competing for enterprise and hyperscale demand, has become

Search for data centre advisory in the UK and the results are dominated by the global real estate firms like CBRE, Savills, JLL and Knight
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