Stellanor buys eight UK data centers from Redcentric in £123m deal
Stellanor acquires eight UK data centers from Redcentric for £123 million, expanding to 11 sites with 39 MVA secured grid capacity and about 450 enterprise customers.
Stellanor has completed the purchase of eight UK data centers from managed services provider Redcentric for £123 million. The acquisition increases Stellanor’s UK estate to 11 sites, with a combined 39 MVA of secured grid capacity and servicing about 450 enterprise customers.
The deal closed recently and adds eight urban facilities to Stellanor’s network. The company, backed by an infrastructure fund managed by DWS Group, was formed about a year ago and has expanded rapidly: its UK footprint grew from two to 11 facilities in nine months through a series of acquisitions.
Stellanor has begun coordinated infrastructure upgrades across the newly acquired sites, installing higher-density power feeds, advanced cooling systems and enhanced fiber interconnections. The company plans these changes to support AI inference, machine learning and real-time analytics workloads while maintaining service continuity for existing clients.
Operations across the expanded portfolio will be supported by renewable energy procurement and by security and resilience measures designed for high-density computing environments.
Michael Tobin CBE, chairman of Stellanor, described the transaction as “a transformative step in building the UK’s leading urban data center platform” and noted plans for further expansion into Ireland and the Nordic region.
Redcentric said the sale will allow it to focus on its core managed services business and improve its balance sheet by reducing debt. Michelle Senecal De Fonseca, chief executive of Redcentric, added that the companies will continue to cooperate and that data center clients should benefit from Stellanor’s platform and DWS backing.
The transaction follows earlier purchases by Stellanor, including two London data centers acquired from Colt Technology Services and a Hemel Hempstead site taken in a sale-and-service-back deal with Imagination Technologies, which remains as a managed customer at that site. Stellanor said the company is integrating the acquired locations into a single platform offering colocation and managed services for enterprise and AI workloads.
