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Heartbreak hotels?
Published: 24 June 2002 09:56 BST
BT Ignite which offers data hosting services - commonly known as internet hotels - is struggling to find tenants.
Andy Green, Ignite's chief executive, admitted the data centres are only half full and hinted that some of the locations will be closed down.
Speaking to the Independent on Sunday, Green said: "Vacancy rates at the centres are around the 50 per cent mark. Our aim is to run the centres at a 70 to 80 per cent mark."
"We are asking ourselves, 'Do we need all the hosting centres?"
Last month Ignite confirmed it was cutting 2,000 staff. The division employs 17,000 people across Europe, mostly in the UK.
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