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Here you can browse our various whitepapers, reports, case studies, infographics, images and logos. If you can’t find what you are looking for, please contact Lizzy McDowell, our Director of Marketing, via the Contact page.
The Quiet Revolution: How Data Centres Remade Slough and Secured the UK’s Digital Future
New report reveals the positive contribution data centres have made to Slough, creating 14,000+ jobs and +£30m annual contribution, and recommends the UK follows the town’s lead.
AI Taking, Not Making
The UK is falling behind in the AI race. Find out why we’re on the road to taking, not making AI
Illuminating the Cloud
In this paper, we’ll be taking a look at how the discussion around data centres has shifted since early 2020
2025 Health, Safety and Environment Report
Our first Health, Safety and Environment Report outlines our dedication to excellence in sustainability, operational safety and environmental leadership
Kao Data ESG Report 2024-25
Our third ESG report based on FY 2024-25, which features are portfolio progress to Net Zero, and our ESG activities.
The North West: The UK’s Next AI Growth Zone
The paper explores why Greater Manchester and the wider North West would be an ideal location for one of the UK’s next AIGZs.
Critical National Infrastructure Whitepaper
Our latest whitepaper looks at the critical steps the government needs to do to continue the digital transformation of the UK, with recommendations from each of Kao Data's senior management team.
Kao Data ESG Report 2023-24 v1
Our second ESG report based on FY 2023-24, this features the latest updates and data on our vision for sustainability, our commitments and current progress in our journey towards Net Zero.
Kao Data ESG Report 2022
Our first ESG report, this features information about our vision for sustainability, our commitments, and current progress in driving positive impact through our business.
Why Manchester? Whitepaper
Learn why Greater Manchester is the UK’s most viable secondary data centre and technology hub after London, and why Kao Data chose it for our latest data centre.
Data Centres & Sustainability Whitepaper
The growth in data and the role of data centres within a sustainable environment (2024).
UK Energy Outlook Whitepaper
Essential reading that helps data centre operators and end-users understand the current climate in the energy market, and provides readers with an outlook for the winter ahead.
Kao Data & Jisc Whitepaper
Examine the partnership between Kao Data and Jisc which provides the UK's academia, and scientific research organisations with access to sustainable and scalable data centre capacity.
PUE Whitepaper
PUE was once just an effective tool to measure performance and efficiency. Now, during a period of high energy costs it’s vital to reduce power use and realise cost savings.
HVO Fuel Whitepaper
Explore how, and why, Kao Data became the first data centre operator in Europe to transition our back-up generators to sustainable hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel.
Cloud or Colo Whitepaper
Written by Next Platform, this whitepaper looks at the inflection points and associated costs for AI startups between choosing cloud or colocation for their compute footprint.
Water Use Infographic
This informative infographic explains how much water an AI data centre actually uses.
Instadeep Case Study
Explore how Kao Data is supporting InstaDeep to become a global leader in AI powered decision-making and reinforcement learning.
EMBL-EBI Case Study
See how Kao Data is supporting EMBL-EBI to become the most comprehensive and easily accessible public biological data library for the global scientific community.
ServerChoice Case Study
Read how Kao Data provides ServerChoice with a secure, sustainable and hyperscale-inspired home for their enterprise and retail colocation clients.
HVO Fuel Infographic
This entertaining infographic shows the benefits of transitioning back-up power sources to sustainable hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) fuel.
Corning Case Study
Learn how together Corning and Kao Data are pioneering the future of advanced computing through world class connectivity and industry leading data centres.
Future Facilities Case Study
Explore how with the help of Future Facilities (now Cadence) Kao Data used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) 3D simulation to validate our data centre design.
The ability of our partners to support complex scientific data models while meeting technological and sustainability targets is a key consideration as we grow the range of Jisc data centre services. We’re proud to name Kao Data as the first of our referral partners as we seek to bolster academic and scientific research efforts across the UK.
Alec Wright, Cloud & Data Centre Services Manager, Jisc
