January 31, 2022 Dublin
IDA Ireland Irish Development Agency (IDA) has announced that looking ahead, it is “unlikely” that any new data centres will be built in Dublin or along the east coast. However, Martin Shanahan, the head of the state’s development agency, has said it will build data centers if they are required...
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January 26, 2022 Madrid
Great news for Spain as plans for a 360MW data center campus in Madrid, Spain, is underway. The data center will be developed on a 700-hectare site, and investment is expected to reach up to €5 billion ($5.67bn). The Digital Valley project is to be a ‘reference model’ for sustainability in data...
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January 14, 2022 Republic of Ireland
EirGrid has made a decision on data center building in Ireland. The state-owned electric power transmission operator has outlined that it will not accept any further applications to build facilities in Dublin for "the foreseeable future" and perhaps not until 2028. That said, the data center...
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January 14, 2022 Echelon Data Centres
Echelon Data Centres has announced a debt finance agreement with Starwood Capital Group. The agreement sees Echelon raise over €855 million ($969.8m). Echelon will use the funds to finance the completion of data centers on its four facilities in Ireland. The sites include DUB40, DUB20, DUB10, and...
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January 05, 2022 Republic of Ireland
There is an ongoing power issue in Ireland as the data center industry in the country continues to boom. Being the host of 70 data centers it is now the fastest-growing data center market in Europe. However, with data centers accounting for 11% of Ireland’s total energy supply, there are...
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December 21, 2021 Republic of Ireland
TikTok has revealed that its planned data center opening in Ireland will be delayed due to issues caused by the pandemic. The company revealed to Business Post Ireland €420 million ($473m) that the facility will be launched in late 2022 instead of the planned early 2022 launch. CSO of TikTok,...
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November 17, 2021 Republic of Ireland
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...
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November 04, 2021 Dublin
Huntstown Power Company, a subsidiary of Energia Group, plans to build two data centers next to its Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. Hunstown has filed for planning permission with Fingal County Council. It is looking to build two data center buildings on 13.3 hectares of land. Each building...
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October 26, 2021 Republic of Ireland
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 run...
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October 18, 2021 Echelon Data Centres
Echelon Data Centres has confirmed that it is developing its second facility in the UK. The LCY20 facility will be located in Chesham, Buckinghamshire, UK. Echelon has broken ground on the facility, and it plans to complete it by Q2 of 2022. LCY20 will have 20MW of capacity. It will also have two...
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October 01, 2021 Milan
Italian data center company Irideos has begun work on a new data center at its Avalon campus in the city of Milan. The new facility named Avalon 3 will have space for 500 racks across 37,700 square feet (3,500 square meters). It will also have 3.2MW of capacity. Irideos is building the new data...
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September 28, 2021 Republic of Ireland
The Irish Social Democrat Party has announced that it is calling for a moratorium on new data centres in Ireland in response to grid constraints and sustainability concerns. This proposed moratorium would be an "interim measure" that would allow the government to fully grasp how many data centers...
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September 28, 2021 Republic of Ireland
Irish data centers are back under the microscope at the Oireachtas Committee on the Environment and Climate Change. According to the Irish Times, Dr Patrick Bresnihan of National University of Ireland, Maynooth, will be bringing forward some concerning figures. Bresnihan will put to the committee...
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July 13, 2021 Echelon Clondalkin
According to The Sunday Business Post, TikTok plans to lease space at the Echelon data center campus in Clondalkin for its new Irish data center. According to the different sources of the Sunday Business Post, TikTok and its parent company, ByteDance, will use the Clondalkin campus as its main...
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July 06, 2021 Republic of Ireland
The local officials in Naas, Kildare, Ireland, have rezoned two plots of land to host data centers. Earlier this week, the Kildare County council voted to rezone these lands for data center use as an update to the Naas 2021-2027 local area plan. The two sites are said to be 91 and 106 acres, with...
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June 15, 2021 London
Brent Council, a governing body of a borough of London, just revealed its plan to spend £3.8 million ($5.3 million) to upgrade data centers over the next four years. The council says it is part of its plan to create a modern and robust IT system. The upgrades involve upgrading physical storage...
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June 10, 2021 Republic of Ireland
In Ireland, over 30 proposed data centers face uncertainty. This comes after the Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU) instructed national grid manager, Eirgrid and ESB Networks to prioritize applications for data centers in areas with reliable power supplies. As a result, Eirgrid has...
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May 14, 2021 Madrid
Rolls-Royce has announced that it has installed and commissioned eight mtu emergency gensets with 9.2MWe power output at a major bank in Madrid. The installation was made to secure power supply in case of a public power grid failure in the region. Rolls-Royce will ensure power supply is secured...
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May 11, 2021 Echelon Data Centres
Echelon Data Centres has announced that it has been granted planning permission to build its DUB30 data center in Arklow, Ireland. The approval was subject to 25 conditions, and proposals outline that the company will demolish the current buildings on the 24.16-hectare site. Following this, it...
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July 19, 2019 Echelon: Arklow DUB20 Campus
The Irish Times reports that Echelon Data Centres has been granted planning permission for a 45,000sq m (484,000sq ft) data centre in the Avoca River Business Park in Arklow, Co Wicklow. Planning permission for the 100MW centre was originally granted by Wicklow Co Council in February, but was the...
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