Online retailer and provider of public-cloud services Amazon bought a large property in Dublin, Ireland, with plans to turn it into a data center, Independent.ie reported.

The 240,000-sq-ft building is a former storage facility of the supermarket chain Tesco, which moved out more than two years ago. The property, sitting on a 13-acre site had been on the market ever since its last occupant left.

The Independent said Seattle-based Amazon was planning to convert the facility into a data center and added that the company was building two other data centers in the region.

The report did not specify what it would use the new data centers for, but there are physical nodes in Ireland for a number of services its cloud business provides. Amazon Web Services has what it calls "availability zones" in Ireland for its Elastic Compute Cloud, Relational Database Service, Simple Storage Service, Virtual Private Cloud, SimpleDB and for a number of other offerings.

The company's latest AWS capacity expansion in Europe was announced on Wednesday. Amazon added a new location in Paris to serve users of CloudFront and Route 53.

An Amazon spokeswoman was not immediately available for comment.