Ark Data Centres (UK): Cody Park A102

Cody Park 2 is part of the larger Ark Data Centres Cody Park campus, located in Farnborough, Hampshire, UK (Old Ively Road, GU14). The campus is designed for high-integrity operations with modular scalability, minimal environmental impact, and connectivity to London for synchronous replication. Cody Park lies approximately 15 minutes from the M25, making it logistically favorable for connections into Greater London, the Thames Valley, and southern England markets. As part of Ark’s multi-building campus, Cody Park 2 benefits from shared infrastructure, power capacity, and a strong carrier ecosystem.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

• The entire Cody Park campus supports 50 MW of IT load capacity across multiple buildings, of which Cody Park 2 is a modular component. 
• Grid & power infrastructure: four 33 kV grid connections from two diverse upstream substations; two site substations providing N+1 grid feeds.
• Ark’s modular steel-centric construction enables rapid expansion, strong reuse, and reduced waste (≈ 90 % recyclability). 
• Cooling strategy: free-air and evaporative (indirect) cooling techniques, plus liquid cooling (“liquid optimisers”) to improve thermal efficiency and reduce PUE. 
• Typical campus PUE: ≈ 1.14 (very efficient for large data center operations) 
• Backup power: generators run on HVO (Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil) to reduce emissions; diesel replaced in many operations. 
• Rainwater harvesting, water treatment, and reuse systems to support cooling and minimize external water draw. 

🔐 Security & Compliance

• IL3 Secure Site rating for the campus (information from Ark’s specification via Datanet) 
• 24/7 on-site security, CCTV, biometric authentication, mantraps. 
• Multi-layer high-security perimeter across the campus (all buildings share perimeter protection) 
• Compliance & certification: ISO 14001, ISO 50001 for environmental and energy management 
• Renewable energy & sustainability commitments: 100 % renewable power (via REGO or equivalent), carbon reduction initiatives, zero waste to landfill policies. 

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

• Carrier-neutral campus with many major carriers present (e.g. Zayo, SSE, Interoute, BT, Virgin) 
• PeeringDB lists 16 diverse fiber operators serving the campus. 
• Multiple fiber entry points into each building, with shared MMRs and private MMRs. 
• Low-latency path to City of London: ~1.5 ms round-trip fiber latency. 
• Interconnection / cross-connect flexibility between Ark campus buildings and to external cloud/service providers 

💼 Who It Serves

• Large wholesale / hyperscale operators needing multi-MW suites or dedicated halls
• Government, defence, and sensitive workloads requiring high security and IL3 protection
• Enterprises requiring replication, disaster recovery, or hybrid cloud linkage to London
• Cloud service providers, AI / compute workloads that benefit from high density and efficient cooling
• Customers focusing on sustainability goals — low-carbon, efficient operations, green credentials