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Commissioned in 2009, the site was Microsoft's first data center outside of the United States.

Microsoft Data Center Expansion on the Grange Castle Park

In 2016 Microsoft received approval to build three additional data centers at the Grange Castle Business Park in Clondalkin to complement their three data centers.

Power is Scarce

Microsoft is building a power station for its data center in the Grange Castle Business Park, Clondalkin, as a surge in demand has made local infrastructure insufficient to sustain the facility.

The company will set up 16 gas-powered generators which will provide 18MW to one of its four data centers on site. The semi-state-owned electricity transmission company, EirGrid, has stated that the power network is struggling to meet requirements at the Grange Castle Business Park. Source (Datacenterdynamics.com))

Cooling

A key focus of the Dublin facility is the use of outside air to cool the facility and servers, a process known as free cooling or air-side economization. Instead of using chillers or cooling towers, rooftop air handling units drop outside air down into the server rooms and then pull the return air from the racks back through the rooftop. (Source: DCK)

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0.07 miles Microsoft DUB 06
0.16 miles Microsoft DUB 07
0.18 miles Microsoft DUB 08
0.33 miles Equinix Dublin DB2
Located in Grange Castle business park, DB2 is a former Telecity site that was acquired by Equinix in January 2016.
0.33 miles Microsoft DUB 10
0.34 miles Microsoft DUB 09
0.35 miles CyrusOne Dublin Grange Castle
Approved in October 2018, CyrusOne is building a three building campus with 74 MW of power.
0.37 miles Microsoft DUB 12
0.40 miles Microsoft DUB 13
0.47 miles Interxion Dublin DUB3
Located in the Grange Castle data centre cluster, the DUB3 data center will offer 2,300 square meters (approx 24,750 sq ft) in phase one and power densities of up to 2kW per square meter, with 4.6MW available for the entire data center.
0.50 miles Microsoft DUB 14
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0.69 miles Edgeconnex Dublin
EdgeConnex plans to build two more of the high-tech facilities at its existing site in Lucan, Dublin. The Lucan business park is also home to a massive Microsoft data centre facility
0.74 miles Digital Profile Park Dublin
Digital Realty owns the 10 acre site at Profile Park and will have access to both power and fiber. The company has secured planning approval to construct 193,384 gross sq ft in two phases and over four buildings.
0.75 miles Google Dublin Grange Castle
South Data Center is two stories and approximately 80,000 sqft. The North data center is two stories and approximately 230,000 sqft
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0.92 miles EdgeConnex DUB05
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The BT data centre is adjacent to Equinix's DB1 site.
2.06 miles Equinix Dublin DB1
2.16 miles Echelon Clondalkin
2.46 miles Amazon DUB-2
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3.15 miles Interxion Dublin 1
3.17 miles Interxion Dublin 2
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4.14 miles Amazon DUB-9
The Amazon AWS site is a former Tesco storage facility at Greenhills Industrial Estate in Dublin 24.
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6.26 miles Facebook Clonee Ireland
Facebook broke ground on the Clonee data centre in 2016 and the first building became operational in December 2017. The centre is built on a 250-acre site that was formerly two farms adjoining the headquarters of the Kepak meat business.
6.28 miles Amazon DUB-8
6.52 miles Keppel DC Dublin 2
6.53 miles Keppel Dublin 2
6.61 miles Blanchardstown Dublin - Digital Realty
Digital Realty’s Blanchardstown Data Centre is a Tier Ill designed building, the two-story building is 120,000sqft. The facility also hosts Servecentric Blanchardstown in the building.
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7.21 miles Equinix Dublin DB3 & DB4
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10.59 miles Digital Realty: Clonshaugh
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Microsoft Dublin Grange Castle Data Center Photos


Microsoft: Grange Castle Business Park, Clondalkin
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Entrance to Microsoft's DB3 Facility
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MSFT Grange Castle Campus as of early 2020

State of Azure Locations as of July 2019
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Conceptual Azure Regions and Availability Zones diagram
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Operating Company

Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

Azure Regions

An Azure region is a set of data centers deployed within a latency-defined perimeter and connected through a dedicated regional low-latency network.

With more global regions than any other cloud provider, Azure gives customers the flexibility to deploy applications where they need to. Azure is generally available in 46 regions around the world, with plans announced for 8 additional regions.

Geographies

An Azure geography is a discrete market, typically containing two or more regions, that preserves data residency and compliance boundaries.

Geographies allow customers with specific data-residency and compliance needs to keep their data and applications close. Geographies are fault-tolerant to withstand complete region failure through their connection to our dedicated high-capacity networking infrastructure.

Availability Zones

Availability Zones are physically separate locations within an Azure region. Each Availability Zone is made up of one or more data centers equipped with independent power, cooling, and networking.

Availability Zones allow customers to run mission-critical applications with high availability and low-latency replication.

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