Crikey the staff member that approached you wasnt the sharpest tool in the toolbox, glad he doesnt work at our centre.
@hariowen3840
2 жыл бұрын
I worked as a piping contractor for many years and rest assured DJ, contractors often don't know or care what the company they do the installations for produce or do.
@neilmacdonald5934
2 жыл бұрын
I've always thought that Siemens should be located in Staines. ;-)
@Dalmen
2 жыл бұрын
I have some experiance in datacenter. New cooling systems don't conclude to higher load to the server. It can also mean they need a replacement, backup or increasment of the cooling. Increasment of cooling can be based on more server loads, higher standarts of the cooling or tempeture grouthe in the envirement (climatic change).
@bertsong
2 жыл бұрын
grouthe? OR GROWTH?
@edwoodsnowden
2 жыл бұрын
I work in a Data Centre and tbh the contractors wont have a clue who's servers they are.
@nigelmckeown
2 жыл бұрын
You've been spending too much time around the police, DJ! "This is suspicious....." "We've had a call from......" "You're being evasive...." Hilarious and informative, as always :-)
@RogerFleischer-p3f
6 ай бұрын
Some say turn--around's fair play.
@sandydobbie1255
2 жыл бұрын
What a muppet the second guy was !!! I’ve come to answer questions but he answered none ??? Then he claimed you are taking up his time ??? Who the hell asked him to come over ??? Siemens was his get to get out of jail answer !!! What a turd !!!
@roccostarbuck8069
2 жыл бұрын
A good audit you got there in the end. You would make a good policeman.
@FreeSpirit44
2 жыл бұрын
Another goodun DJ - I am dismayed a little when I see cooling systems on the scale of those at these data centres. Why can they not install a system of using the spare heat for heating local factory units and homes or offices such as that which we have locally, where a straw burning unit to make electricity pumps its surplus hot water around to the local swimming pool, council offices and a primary school free of charge, thus returning the cooled water back to the plant. The use of liquid nitrogen and electricity to run those air con units is not very green is it? something you could maybe ask them about in your next interaction. Stay safe DJ.
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
Very good question.
@rustyrocks69
2 жыл бұрын
because pressure and groundworks
@marklatimer7333
2 жыл бұрын
These are commercial companies so if there was profit in it they would already be doing it, so ask yourself why don't they? - probably too much hassle to make it worthwhile.
@andybrown1460
2 жыл бұрын
they're installing a new, highly efficient cooling system. The system is used to provide cool air for computer systems intake - to keep the systems operational - optimum temperature of the system intake is ~20-21c. Any hotter, computer systems reduce their compute speed to keep the CPU from overheating. However, because the air input is constant, the hot side, whilst warm (40ish c), is nowhere near hot enough to be of any use to a secondary application. With air being a rubbish conducter of heat, even trying to use that output to heat a room in the same building would fail.
@lisalupin1202
2 жыл бұрын
Loving the education… thanks so much.
@resist.
2 жыл бұрын
This joint will need to be audited again
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
Good to see you here :) Proximity are just a generic colocation provider. There are usually multiple suites (rooms) with one user or many users, within which there are hundreds of racks which hold the servers, each rack can have a different owner, in each rack are multiple servers which can have different owners, each server can have hundreds of different customers. It's not any of your tech giants, they have their own dedicated data centres and don't share with others.
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
It's not really about latency (and proximity lol) to the user in the UK either, as majority of traffic between ISP and Servers goes via LINX in London or MANAP in Manchester, though there are regional IXP (internet exchange points) around the country they are a fraction of overall traffic. The latency difference between London, Wales and Edinburgh is so low, that unless you're doing something like high frequency trading, it is not noticeable to you where in the UK your traffic is routed.
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
You might well be a user of this data centre when you visit an SME website, or use a third party app on your phone, you just don't know (beyond the privacy policy which should specific jurisdiction) where the data you download or upload is coming from. Any questions, let me know (I've been in this industry selling space and compute/storage/network capacity in these things for 25 years).
@markdunkling1604
2 жыл бұрын
@@randgate latency is very important to those that play online ....
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
@@markdunkling1604 Yes, but you're talking a few milliseconds (for context London Manchester including overheads both sides would be 5ms, London to Amsterdam 8ms, London to NY 30ms, etc) and unless you and your ISP is connected to the same local PoP (point of presence) as the game server you'll see fractional benefits. Additional data centres is primarily about capacity, diversity/redundancy and latency for 99.9% of applications is a country level thing (other than the massive countries like US, Russia, China where for example NYC to LA is maybe 35ms). Netflix and Steam and Microsoft as examples may host caching content servers with your ISP's core in close "proximity" to you, but this is about improving the download speed and reducing the costs associated (hosting that content centrally requires bigger central pipes and dealing with intermediaries, which is costly to both Netflix and the ISP).
@markdunkling1604
2 жыл бұрын
@@randgate "Yes" glad you agreed , Critical according to proximity .
@paigeleigh2554
2 жыл бұрын
As always, brilliantly done!
@ofark2764
2 жыл бұрын
Cyber security is big business as N3TANYAHU stated, and they're at the top.... Control Control. Good job again youngman. ❤️
@martingetliffe
2 жыл бұрын
I spotted a gas suppression system with the drone flyover, commonly used in big server-rooms/Data Centres. Clever bits of kit just don’t get caught in the room when it goes off…………
@Brian169016
2 жыл бұрын
I think Data centres are closer to city hubs, this looks more like a disaster recovery centre, probably a bank or maybe government contractor. When a city is attacked or loses internet access, essential staff can go to a recovery site and run a company. The servers are normally independent from the cloud in case of a hack or virus. Prudential used to have one and it was very similar.
@PlanetRuncorn
2 жыл бұрын
HAHA who else thought that guy that came up looked like Wayne Rooney especially as he was in his car driving off ... another good one ...
@denis9450
2 жыл бұрын
Looked like it had three stand by generators there only one of which is running the one on the left with the open exhaust flap
@steverpcb
7 ай бұрын
A 500 rack data center is what I tell scammers I am when they ask things such as how many lights are lit on my router etc LOL
@richjax2405
2 жыл бұрын
That conversation was bizarre with that guy 😂😂
@FateBoost
2 жыл бұрын
You’ll find most data centres have to agree to withhold the information of their clients.
@StalwartShinobi
2 жыл бұрын
good video as always but cant lie, on this one i never expected you to find out because if they are holding data for a client they wouldnt be allowed to give you information of who it is, either for data protection or just to prevent losing the trust of clients.
@vaughnwilliams1208
2 жыл бұрын
They sent the dopiest guy in the building out to answer questions about the company
@xyiow959
2 жыл бұрын
“Smarter every day “ made an amazing video on data centres.
@rd9337
2 жыл бұрын
Whats your position? Horizontal, look. He said while standing up 🤣😂.
@user-yg9ug3fl6e
2 жыл бұрын
This is pretty much any standard DC, the cooling and high security is usual due to the nature of sensitive data they hold and they won’t tell you who their clients are, most of the time half the employees won’t have that information anyway. As others have said though, this won’t be any of the tech giants.
@lecramedfraag5414
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for the vdo. Marcel from netherlands here , again.. 😉
@OofHearted
2 жыл бұрын
I'm sure I've seen this company somewhere also because I remember thinking it's a cool sounding name that's nonspecific but mysterious and wondered what they do, like security maybe, or fences ha ha, I dunno, it is a very vague name Proximity.
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
Wakefield, just around the corner from the massive HSBC one than PJ stumbled across.
@triplezs6307
2 жыл бұрын
proximity is an indication of how the 5g deployment will function as part of the IOB
@Mindrust69
2 жыл бұрын
Am I missing something. But if all this was able to be found on Google, how come that wasn't your first port of call. Good video though enjoyed it .
@jonathanmargetts7053
2 жыл бұрын
When I find out I’ll come and tell you mate!!!! Legend!!!
@TiredMorgan
2 жыл бұрын
Anyone can rent rack space in these facilities. Most UK Gov't systems are on the Cable & Wireless / VODAFONE network for security. COLO-X are an edge centre for Openreach, Virgin Media oh, and VODAFONE.... So could well have government systems running from this site.
@Baralasker
2 жыл бұрын
Should go to the birmingham one, it's bigger and has more security
@bikeelectric4821
2 жыл бұрын
10:20 at least he's not calling security or making false reports to 999
@mrm5183
2 жыл бұрын
“You Tooba”
@HarryNicNicholas
Жыл бұрын
nice to have chapters.
@Trctnctrl0ff888
5 ай бұрын
Loving the drone soundtrack today!!!
@sapankhurst2015
2 жыл бұрын
I suspect these companies are preparing for the 5G environment.....driverless cars, drone delivery, policing drones, augmented reality, even gaming which is the biggest market I believe.😎
@josephbarrett9616
2 жыл бұрын
Horizontal?. I think he meant vertical!.
@johnw6389
2 жыл бұрын
Edge... hmm.. Theta Network has a Theta Edge node
@andrewgilbertson5356
2 жыл бұрын
Good Drone tunes for DAVID
@paullord3549
Жыл бұрын
Bit of a come down for Wayne Rooney 🤣🤣
@niktimes3
2 жыл бұрын
I think DJ just found the thickest man in the uk 😂
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
🤣🤣🤣
@niktimes3
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS stop talking about siemens 😂
@robinhood20050
2 жыл бұрын
I Know this comment is a bit late but i live just around the corner from this place. I ve always wondered what was inside like most of the local residents
@paulluke3724
2 жыл бұрын
I think you need to go to Las Vegas and visit Area 51 😆
@stephengilbert5612
2 жыл бұрын
The guys you were talking to were just maintenance . They probably don,t know who the customers are which could well be multipul. The first chubby non contractor that you talked to was so stupid he said his position was horizontal when it was vertical ,lol.
@nigelpalmer9248
2 жыл бұрын
That place is a proper secret
@werhold
2 жыл бұрын
I was wishing you would use the AirWolf music when you take the drine up, but I guess thats copywrited
@rigelstar562
2 жыл бұрын
It's literally Proximity datacenter 🙄. It's a company.
@19Neil67
2 жыл бұрын
They are also registered on companies house
@charliebruce592
2 жыл бұрын
Thanks DJ I can’t believe the police didn’t show up.
@nbhybrid206
2 жыл бұрын
Cooling system for servers
@keithgrainger8797
2 жыл бұрын
Don't divulge your contacts... You filmed him at the beginning 🤔
@Lonewolf__666
2 жыл бұрын
I’ve come to answer your questions. I carnt answer any questions.😂
@andrewgilbertson5356
2 жыл бұрын
Thank you.
@tonywhitworth3246
2 жыл бұрын
UK's Area 51???
@Sam-qh1sh
2 жыл бұрын
You can’t divulge your sources!! You filmed his face and place of work and then put it on KZitem!! Everyone knows your source
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
I can divulge to the world but not to this man at this moment in time 🤣🤣🤣
@DAZVADER74
2 жыл бұрын
DJ….. Please please please Tell me you Have Excellent Security for your BIKE…. I spent 20+ minutes Worrying you just left it resting against the fence & Buggered off out of sight 🤯😬
@VarrgasBodgerton
2 жыл бұрын
Secure IT Environments LTD lists 5 customers on their website, one of which happens to be the NHS. I think the mystery is solved.
@BABYWOLF--1966
2 жыл бұрын
Get the footage of that phone mi amigo
@susanshone8185
2 жыл бұрын
These two fellas were useless but you were getting close to the truth the guy was talking in circles he thought he could pull a fast one but soon realized you knew a lot more about it and he completely failed great work DJ you ran rings round him
@wayne90079
2 жыл бұрын
Don’t look at the building horizontal look down
@retrodanitsch
2 жыл бұрын
I think the employee may have been mildly cretinous!
@scotttchviski6706
2 жыл бұрын
Back of the net!
@thomasdowe5274
2 жыл бұрын
Hint '5-Eyes (FVEY)'.
@alanmhinds2559
2 жыл бұрын
First comment
@MickJ666
2 жыл бұрын
"First comment" isnt really a comment is it? 🤣🤣
@movarvo1217
2 жыл бұрын
So your 007.......licence to comment first lol
@Jerry-mr9yb
2 жыл бұрын
Nice one DJ
@bankaiiibankaaa4573
2 жыл бұрын
This poor boy got cornered really hard with tough questions in which he answered with his body language.
@supersuper-sq8ss
2 жыл бұрын
Who the hell are you to come out onto the public footpath and question my actions..
@richardkeating7300
2 жыл бұрын
It looks like they are trying to supercool a big computer.
@TheMisphit
2 жыл бұрын
Poor old boy doesn't know the difference between horizontal and vertical
@KoolBreeze420
2 жыл бұрын
I'm thinking there are servers in there I don't see why you would need so much cooling for just cooling the air it has to be computer-related, bitcoin farming or internet servers possibly even Google servers for the UK.
@Brizlebird
2 жыл бұрын
Serious question DJ…. Who is the Data Controller for that CCTV now? If its no longer Siemens… who would someone appeal to for access to the cameras? 🤔
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
Great point. Yes the sign should be updated with current details.
@randgate
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS The ICO is taking 9 months currently to assign case workers to complaints, nobody cares any more.
@andybrown1460
2 жыл бұрын
If Siemens provide Security as an outsourced service (they do), they could be providing CCTV to the building, in which case they would be the data controller.
@geodun
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITSIt might still be Siemens. An organisation I worked for built a dedicated data centre to their own spec then once it was operating, they sold the building and leased it back. Nothing really changed except the name on property deed. A lot of contracted services like security did not change at all, same contracts, same people.
@Brizlebird
2 жыл бұрын
Why haven’t they got solar on that roof? The government are talking about setting up solar farms on arable land, which will reduce our food production capacity…. All whilst huge buildings like this have roofs which could be used instead.
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
Another great point.
@marklatimer7333
2 жыл бұрын
Because it would be like a p1ss in the Ocean plus the sun never shines in Nottingham .
@Marri-Tech
2 жыл бұрын
Because the cost to install Vs the benefits are not good enough
@colinofay7237
2 жыл бұрын
Another reason to not have solar is the potential added fire risk vs the benefit. They certainly wouldn't want pointless added fire risks for a dc
@geodun
2 жыл бұрын
The building operator may already have a contract for 100% renewable energy. Covering a small part of their daytime consumption with solar panels might not make sense for them. If the government or anyone else wanted to use their roof for solar pv there is nothing stopping them offering to pay to use their roof. It can be like a bakery growing a bit of wheat on their roof to offset the cost of flour.
@cdsmith1990
2 жыл бұрын
"you're showing me facts that I don't know, it's like it's all made up" - this guy did well in school, didn't he......
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
Facts are Facts mate. Yes well spotted, I should have picked up on him saying that.
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
@@tttt4029 I guess that's the difference between data and facts. ❤
@118scale
2 жыл бұрын
Definitely government waste!! Build back better bollox
@janabbott3028
2 жыл бұрын
stop talking about Siemens!!!!
@andrewgilbertson5356
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS Facts are facts but some are wrong.
@TheSadButMadLad
2 жыл бұрын
Why does he keep saying you going back to Seimens when you only mentioned as in the past? He's not listening because he's so busy thinking about what he can and cannot say.
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
I expect siemens to be the main user of the building still and they pay the new company rent for the servers. Biggest customer therefore siemens maybe?
@TheSadButMadLad
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS Could be that his fixation on Siemens was due to trying to say it's nothing to do with Siemens whilst knowing that's its everything to do with Siemens. ;-)
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
@@TheSadButMadLad 👌
@JoannaHammond
2 жыл бұрын
They really need to capture the heat from data centers and use it for, erm.. let me guess... Heating.
@garrycroft4215
2 жыл бұрын
I see that they had 3 large generators, they don’t like power outages at these places.😬
@uktvcool
2 жыл бұрын
2MW each diesel cummins
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
I would expect a power outage here would result in a very big problem.
@tonythompson6791
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS hi mate, no it won’t the 3 bit wight with the big exhausts on the top of them are backup generators, & the 2 green tanks behind the caravan are the fuel tanks for them, also when you had a chat with the guys working on site you walked part the green boxes on the side is the footpath well they are the fibre and phone lines for transferring the data to the Internet and beyond.. I was a IT Network Manager, I had a hand building a £10 million pound site… In side will be small rooms with racks in them full of servers, Why it is easier to keep a small room cool than one big one, Look up Tele House in the dock lands London it is a main node of the internet in the uk, I had servers in there 👍
@SteveGodrich
2 жыл бұрын
That guy who turned up around the 20 minute mark, is he head of pointlessness at Proximity? His interaction was hilarious!
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
I expect he put his foot down to arrive this quick also. What a waste of time. 🤣🤣
@SteveGodrich
2 жыл бұрын
@@DJAUDITS He knew nothing, understood nothing, couldn't tell you anything, and then buggered off. I bet he earns six figures as well! 😂😂
@andybrown1460
2 жыл бұрын
The cooling installation here doesn't mean expansion. The cooling at the back of this building (original) is old and dated and uses an old cooling strategy where you cool the whole data hall. The new installation focuses that cooling only where it's needed, which is just in the racks on the intake side. In terms of who they serve, a full size 19" x 7ft rack would be more than capable of housing all of the government's IT server systems, with possibly another for storage. One of those racks could hold potentially 30-40 physical servers which, if using virtualisation could easily hold a further 50 virtual servers each - so a single rack could hold 2000 server systems. This building isn't supplying IT infrastructure to one client, they're potentially serving hundreds of clients, yes it could be government, but it could be something as boring as Derek from Derby's holiday photos.
@carlhartwell7978
Жыл бұрын
You clearly haven't seen Derek's18yo daughter!
@ThaiEcka555
6 ай бұрын
@@carlhartwell7978 please send me the link.. 😃
@beakytzw
2 жыл бұрын
They have had 2 years to change the signage on the fence. The Employee was a little excitable, not the person you want face to face with the public. Who you supposed to contact about the CC TV footage?
@justalitttleun
2 жыл бұрын
The fact he's laughing and pooh pooing your info tells me you are correct.
@just4laughs142
2 жыл бұрын
At the top end of the industrial estate there was a massive fire 🔥 I’m not sure if it’s still a big mess but worth a look with the drone it’s not far from Where they teach scaffolding
@mrmangosir
2 жыл бұрын
Like your videos, but if they gave away who uses their servers and I had some servers there, I'd be pulling them from the data centre. Any decent data centre wouldn't give away what customers are in that centre. They might on their website have who their big customers are, but that's about it. Ultimately, they need to keep these centres safe.
@patrickdaly2121
2 жыл бұрын
That guy who came to answer your questions was useful wasn’t he? You would have been as well to have spoken to the lamp post.
@araptorofnote5938
2 жыл бұрын
DJ has sometimes found very useful information tied to lamp posts.
@DJAUDITS
2 жыл бұрын
@@araptorofnote5938 Very true! 🤣🤣🤣
@Coyo-Tea
2 жыл бұрын
About as useful as a square wheeled bicycle
@HarryNicNicholas
Жыл бұрын
he was good for a laugh "i don't know why i keep sayin' seimens, it's not seimens, it's got nuffin to do wif seimenrs??"
@HarryNicNicholas
Жыл бұрын
what's more is that it was really good of him to come and tell you he wasn't going to tell you anything. he could have asked not to filmed while he's in the film too.
@bertramlefarge69
2 жыл бұрын
The long bank of Telecom junction cabinets is another giveaway
@TheSadButMadLad
2 жыл бұрын
Edge data centers are smaller facilities located close to the populations they serve that deliver cloud computing resources and cached content to end users. They typically connect to a larger central data center or multiple data centers.
@jnwms
2 жыл бұрын
Wouldn't be surprised if they do co-location in this data centre. They do in Wakefield
@mrjinks5641
2 жыл бұрын
Another example of we want to answer your questions until you ask them 🤣You sir are very researched and informed I personally think it stop’s them in their tracks when they realise you know as much as them 🤣👍
@mrjinks5641
2 жыл бұрын
@@tttt4029 they never divulge anything period.
@mrjinks5641
2 жыл бұрын
@@tttt4029 yeah right like the people who are supposedly a risk to these companies don’t already know what they need to know.
@mrjinks5641
2 жыл бұрын
@@tttt4029 it was you who said anyone who understands the importance of Data centres would know the risk. So in saying so you’re admitting there’s a risk if there’s a risk there must be people who are that risk it’s not rocket science I’m merely saying that if this company was a high risk target the people who pose said risk would already know of it’s existence. Hope that clears things up for you tt 🙄
@rijohny3662
2 жыл бұрын
I work in tech , and you are right data centres are often built for banks, but data centres are usually shared by several companies not just 1
@bikeelectric4821
2 жыл бұрын
21:10 that laugh is a dead giveaway!!! You nailed it! It's a government data center. And stop going on about Siemens; the facts are all wrong. I'm thinking it's an MI5 or MI6 data center.
@philipcooper6085
2 жыл бұрын
I'd say definitely a data centre , got to keep those computers cool , that place has got to be sucking the power
@sylviadiaper378
2 жыл бұрын
Really enjoy the vlogs. Just a thought perhaps looking on the company's website. For names of directors would possibly add interest.
@kevinhodgson5990
2 жыл бұрын
It seemed to me that the proximity guy was fixated with seimens. Well done for uncovering the ongoing relationship proximity still has with seimens
@HarryNicNicholas
Жыл бұрын
he left seimens all over the place :)
@bikeelectric4821
2 жыл бұрын
18:30 "you keep telling me to forget Siemens, but this has nothing to do with Siemens" OMG - WE GET IT stop beating a dead horse and answer the questions
@bikeelectric4821
2 жыл бұрын
it's like Siemens is a trigger word for him, you should tell him at the end that you are going to report him to Siemens
@arpc
Жыл бұрын
Co-Lo is pronounced Co Lo (it stands for Colocation). A common term for multi-use DC's. The Edge in the name suggests it's an Edge Location (part of a multi-part site) for distributing data at high speed nationwide. Perfect for streaming services. The data is copied to each Edge Location so it can be distributed faster to consumers as it's closer to them than a single, central datacentre.
@sunnyinsanya2
2 жыл бұрын
This is an Edge computing data centre, for low latency applications, like gaming, that need to be located very close to the end users, ie 'Proximity'. "Proximity Data Centres is a new provider for the UK data centre market, commencing operations in 2020 and the only specialist ‘edge’ focussed operator. They are aiming to open a string of 20 data centres across the country within 2020 and 2021 - a very short time frame. The company believe that a portfolio of 20 sites can be located to offer less than 15 miles distance from 95% of the population located outside of London, so ultra-low latency and 5G-related deployments will be one of their key selling points, ideal for edge applications."
@edwoodsnowden
2 жыл бұрын
Colo is colocation and this is when customers bring their own servers to be hosted in the datacentre DJ. It is also pronnounced 'Coe Low'
@gernaneering
2 жыл бұрын
I love the drone music that you use to accompany the drone footage it adds a very professional polish to your revealing investigative audit DJ, I am becoming a more regular fan of your work and also enjoy the journey that you take us on and make us feel that we are a partner in your uncovering of these unsigned buildings all around the country. " you are awful, but i like you " LOL
@woodsmic
2 жыл бұрын
Ive got to find out who the servers are for, and until I do, I cant leave. A few minutes later without answers, he leaves. :-) Love it!
@WhosPhotoTube
2 жыл бұрын
Not many cars in the Car Park because as of 1st April 2022 to 31 March 2023 the Nottingham Workplace Parking Levy Charge will be £458 for employers who provide 11 or more liable places. Either the company pay or the employee.
@royalanethridge333
2 жыл бұрын
It’s a shame these buildings are so far behind by not using solar panels wind farms etc instead of buying power from Norway
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