Baltic Broadband is excited to announce plans for our fourth Edge Data Centre (DC4) as we continue to expand our high-capacity network footprint across the North West.
Strategically positioned on the border of Wigan and St Helens, this high-resilience facility is purpose-built to meet the surging demand for hyper-local, zero-latency computing and high-altitude wireless distribution.
By bringing processing power directly to the geographical edge, DC4 is engineered to power the next generation of industrial automation, media transport, and smart infrastructure.
Powering Next-Generation Edge Applications
Traditional centralised cloud facilities in Dublin or London introduce physical latency delays that modern real-time applications simply cannot tolerate.Our new border facility bridges this gap by offering localised compute, direct carrier interconnects, and un-killable power redundancy. The facility has been specifically architected to support four key growth sectors:
- Local LLM & Edge AI Instances: As enterprise adoption of Artificial Intelligence accelerates, running large language models (LLMs) and computer vision algorithms locally eliminates cloud bandwidth bottlenecks and delivers instant, sub-millisecond inference speeds.
- Live Broadcast & Media Transport: Built with direct Layer-2 interconnects to major national networks and media exchanges (including LINX, LONAP, and London Telehouse), the site provides uncompressed, ultra-low-latency video transport for live broadcast crews and event networks.
- Smart Grid & Utility Telemetry: Supporting the UK’s massive rollout of smart water and energy infrastructure, the high-site hosts high-capacity IoT aggregators and LoRaWAN gateways to monitor regional pipelines, grid substations, and environmental telemetry in real time.
- Driverless Vehicles & Autonomous Logistics: Positioned along major industrial transport corridors, the node acts as a critical waypoint for automated guided vehicles (AGVs), commercial drone flight networks (BVLOS), and precision RTK GPS positioning.
Enterprise Infrastructure & Carrier-Neutral Connectivity
Designed to Tier-3 standards, the facility provides multi-layered physical and operational security for corporate, utility, and public-sector infrastructure:- Dual Power Redundancy: Equipped with A&B power feeds, UPS battery strings, and an automated backup diesel generator plant.
- 100% Renewable Footprint: Powered by a combination of on-site solar generation and certified 100% green energy tariffs.
- Multi-Tier Colocation: Offering secure internal vault suites, fractional 10U/21U racks, low-profile wall pods, and external IP65 perimeter micro-cabinets.
- National Carrier Fabric: Direct cross-connects into Openreach Y-Node infrastructure, Virgin Media O2, Vodafone, and SpaceX Starlink PNI backbones.
Securing Your Edge Capacity
Whether you require a secure half-rack for offsite disaster recovery, a private 10Gbps Layer-2 pipe into AWS/Azure, or high-site wireless aperture space, Baltic’s fourth Edge Data Centre provides the ultimate regional footprint. Pre-launch capacity allocations and wholesale colocation bookings are now open for infrastructure partners, utility integrators, and local enterprise IT teams.Looking to deploy ultra-low latency compute on the North West network edge? Contact our wholesale engineering team today via our Contact Page or call 0151 279 1000 to discuss custom rack configurations and interconnect options.
