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Echelon is planning a large data centre campus at the former IFI site at Avoca River Park outside of Arklow.
Irish data center firm Echelon is reportedly growing “frustrated” with how long it is taking to connect a planned project to the electricity grid. The DUB20 project, outside Dublin in County Wicklow’s Arklow, is reportedly outside Dublin’s constrained area where EirGrid has said no more data center connection applications can be granted.
First announced in 2019 and set on a 100-acre site south of the Irish capital, DUB20 is set to offer 90MW in phase one across 45,000 sqm (484,000 sq ft), eventually growing to more than 200MW. The site will include a biogas power plant and be connected to a nearby wind farm.
The first phase was originally due to go live in 2021; plans were then pushed back to break ground in Q3 2021 and be operational by Q3 2022.
The site was sold for €10m through Arklow agent Raymond Gaffney and it is expected that the construction phase will create 450 jobs followed by another 90 positions to operate the facility.
| Distance | Site | About |
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| 2.53 miles | Echelon: DUB30 |
Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for another data center development in Arklow, Ireland.
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| 2.58 miles | Echelon: DUB30 Bldg 2 |
Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for another data center development in Arklow, Ireland.
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| 2.61 miles | Echelon: DUB30 Bldg 3 |
Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for another data center development in Arklow, Ireland.
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The 45,000 sqM facility is pending approval (as of Feb 2019)
Echelon Data Centres is a data centre owner, developer and operator building a network of large-scale data centre campuses across Europe to meet the rapidly expanding global demand for data processing and storage solutions.
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wicklow-times-5-2-19-south
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February 2019 |
Wicklow Times article from Feb 2019 |
