February 16, 2026 Dublin
Global electrification firm ABB has acquired Irish electrical engineering consultancy Premium Power to expand its advisory capabilities within the data center market.“For more than two decades, Premium Power has built its reputation by helping customers solve complex electrical challenges with...
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November 21, 2024 Dublin
Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) provider RackNerd has expanded its offering to Dublin, Ireland and will be offering its IaaS from the Digital Realty DU10 data center located in Dublin, Ireland."Our expansion into Dublin represents a strategic response to the growing demand for high-performance...
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April 30, 2023 Dublin
The Dublin, Ireland, two-story data center developing application has been retracted. SDC Piperstown II Ltd submitted a request to Fingal County Council on January 17, 2023, for permission to build a data center on a 20-acre site in Piperstown, Dublin. But this has since been dropped, for no...
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February 13, 2023 Echelon Data Centres
Over the last few years, Ireland has witnessed a significant data center boom, so much so, that Ireland introduced a moratorium in Dublin to halt the development of further data centers in the city. As part of this de facto moratorium, EirGrid has outlined that no new grid connection applications...
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January 01, 2023 Dublin
According to reports, in the wake of the Dublin data center moratorium over grid issues, 21 new data centers are planned outside of the greater Dublin area. Sixteen of these facilities are large-scale data centers, while a further five smaller-scale data center projects are being discussed with...
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November 25, 2022 Dublin
Following the Irish government's approval of the terms and conditions of ORESS 1, a huge auction for offshore wind, 2.5GW of renewable energy could be added to the grid, enough to power 2.5 million Irish homes with green electricity. According to reports, at least three offshore energy auctions...
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October 03, 2022 Dublin
After much back and forth, South Dublin County Council (SDCC) is now complying with the government's order to scrap plans to ban data centers in the area, despite serious concerns about the environmental impact of additional facilities and the extra pressure the would place on the grid. This...
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August 19, 2022 Echelon Data Centres
Echelon Data Centres has reportedly filed a legal challenge with the High Court against South Dublin County Council’s decision to ban new facilities in its function area during the lifetime of its 2022 to 2028 development. This legal action follows the motion tabled by the council’s People Before...
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August 17, 2022 Dublin
A dispute has arisen between Irish Minister for Planning Peter Burke and South Dublin County Councillors over its ban on new data centers in the county. Burke had claimed last month that the county’s decision to make data centers “not permitted” use in the new county development plan breached...
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April 27, 2022 Dublin
Energia Group has announced that Fingal County Council has granted the company planning permission for two new data centers next to the Huntstown Power Station in Dublin, Ireland. The two facilities, known as Buildings A and B, are expected to have a gross floor area of c. 37,647 sqm (400,000 sq...
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April 14, 2022 Dublin
Further delays have been announced regarding TikTok’s first data center in Europe. Its Dublin-based facility was initially planned to be up and running by early 2022, but due to what the company said were delays related to Covid, the facility’s opening was pushed back to late 2022. Now the...
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March 15, 2022 Dublin
Continuing to pursue the ban on new data center builds in Dublin, People Before Profit Councillor Madeleine Johansson recently put forward an amendment to do just that, a motion, which was voted through by 18 votes to 13 against, with one abstention. Despite the vote to curb further builds, there...
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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 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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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 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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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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