I left a few years later but the last I heard the company had spent several million pounds on a new site built directly on a flood plain with the IT hardware in the basement.
You'd be surprised about how many people don't even know what a floodplain IS, let alone the consequences of putting important infrastructure there. Even in the Netherlands (a country known for it's water management) some companies and homeowners have had to learn this lesson the hard way.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
