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Year Built: 2016
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DC5 Canon House is aql’s purpose-built High-Performance Computing (HPC) hub, situated approximately half a mile from the Salem Chapel campus. The facility spans three floors with a total technical space of 650m² (approx. 7,500 sq ft), providing capacity for nearly 300 racks (scalable up to 420). It was engineered specifically for data-intensive workloads, supporting high-density deployments of up to 14 kW per rack.

As the primary host for JISC North, DC5 serves as a critical research and education hub for five major northern universities—including Leeds, Sheffield, and Liverpool—providing direct integration into the Janet network and specialized support for scientific simulations and AI applications.

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Based in the UK, aql is a regulated telecommunications operator that specializes in providing secure, reliable wholesale access to fixed and mobile networks for government, enterprise, and innovative sectors.

The company manages voice services and numbering for over 80 million numbers across more than 20 UK Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Additionally, aql processes over 1 million SMS text messages daily and has enabled more than 40 UK Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO) brands. The organization also owns and operates a significant national data network alongside secure colocation data centers within the UK.

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