Between them, IDA Ireland and Coillte scoured rural fields to identify a suitable site on which to build a data centre. The all-singing, all-dancing data centre was extraordinarily well received and painted IDA Ireland in a wonderful light. Apple is understood to have invested in the region of €10 million on the site for the proposed data centre. The difficulties it presents were thrown into sharp relief by a parallel process Apple was running for a data centre in Viborg, northern Denmark. Recently, he was involved in a separate appeal against Amazon’s €1 billion planned data centre in north Dublin.

Source: The Irish Times May 11, 2018 04:52 UTC