NYSE Euronext, the operator of stock exchanges in Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels and Lisbon, is “strategically and financially” reviewing the operation of its two-year-old, multimillion-pound UK data centre, which covers the area of more than six football pitches, Financial News has learnt.

NYSE has spent around $500m on two new data centres in the US and UK, which, in a single move, put the exchange's systems business, NYSE Technologies, at the heart of its future strategy.