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Operations have begun at TikTok's long-planned data center in Ireland, it has announced. This is its first in Ireland. It is also working on opening two more data centers in Europe, a second in Ireland and another in Norway. This move is a bid to please regulators, and ease spying fears, as pa...

Google has announced that it has signed its first Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) in Ireland. The 14-year agreement is with Power Capital Renewable Energy for 58MW of new-to-the grid capacity from the Tullabeg Solar Farm in County Wexford.The solar project, currently under construction, spans 2...

Despite repeated calls from different parties in Ireland to halt data center building, a recent report has shown that Ireland's low tax advantage is  stimulating further growth in data center construction. According to a recent market review, Ireland's corporation tax rate, being one of the lo...

Following concern being raised over the dangers posed by continued data center expansion, Ireland’s Labour Party has joined the call to halt data center building and, instead, introduce a temporary surcharge.Speaking about this, Labour leader and climate spokesperson Ivana Bacik, said that the...

Startling new figures released by the Central Statistics Office have revealed that in just a year, data center power consumption in Ireland has increased by 31 percent; 18 percent of all electricity used in 2022. Yet, Ireland's government is not intending to reduce the number being built in th...

According to a report, nearly a dozen data centers in Dublin have secured permission to get hooked up to the Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) pipeline in the wake of grid restrictions in Ireland and de facto moratorium put in place by EirGrid. In total, eleven data centers will be connected to the g...

The appeal against the Ennis Data Centre is reportedly moving to the next stage, according to a report by local newspaper, the Clare Herald. A response from the developer has been passed on from An Bord Pleanála, Ireland's national independent planning body, to the appellants, which include th...

According to RTE reports, the Irish government is trying to phase out data centers that are powered exclusively by natural gas, by closing a loophole. Minister for Climate Eamon Ryan, as per a letter, released to RTÉ News under Freedom of Information, instructed Gas Networks Ireland (GNI) that...

In Ireland, the data center expansion debate is bubbling over. A contentious matter in recent years, due to energy grid and environmental concerns, many have called for a moratorium or stricter rules around expansion. There has also recently been confusion around the country's new data center ...

Environmental group Futureproof Clare is opposing the approval of a €450 million ($464.3m) data center project in Ennis, in the West of Ireland, over concerns around public health, and a projected use of "inordinate amounts of water and electricity."The facility, an Art Data Centres project, w...

According to Taoiseach Micheál Martin, despite EirGrid warning that data centers are an energy drain and could also prevent the country from reaching its sustainability goals, there will be no data center moratoriums ahead. This news comes following the latest report from the Environmental Pro...

The pressure on the Irish power supply is starting to bite, as state-owned grid manager EirGrid announces that it has stopped talks with dozens of data center companies and halted plans for up to 30 data centers. Currently, there are some 70 data centers in the State, which have become a huge ...

New figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) have outlined that the energy consumption situation in Ireland is just as bad as groups such as An Taisce have warned. According to the Office's statistics, last year, data centers consumed more energy than rural homes. According to the Nati...

People Before Profit, is calling for an end to new data centers being buillt in Ireland, and picketed outside ​​Data Centres Ireland event in Dublin on 16 November in protest of the dangerous and continual expansion of data center building in Ireland.The protest held outside the annual data ce...

Ireland's County Offaly is investigating hydrogen as a green energy that could power data centers. The study, 'Exploring Data Centre Integration with Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen in the Midlands', will look into the feasibility of integrating data centres with renewable energy and will ...