Ireland-Northern Ireland transmission link faces legal challenge over data center energy consumption fears
Could delay the project by years
News - Ireland
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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Art Data Centres Ennis campus judicial review gets dismissed
Project has been in the pipelines since 2019
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Xavier Niel tightens grip over Irish telco Eir
Davidson Kempner finalized its exit from the Irish telco last month
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Equal1 launches silicon quantum server named Bell-1
Server comes in a “conventional rack-mounted server unit”
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OVH launches local zone Edge location in Dublin, Ireland
Company launches 11th European local zone
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Cellnex completes $1bn sale of Irish unit to Phoenix Tower International
Exits yet another market
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Equinix loses appeal to get permission for gas-powered data center in Dublin
An Bord Pleanála says no to islanded gas-powered data center
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Pisces subsea cable to connect Ireland to EU nations now due by 2028
Announced in May last year, will be partially funded by the EU
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Ireland’s energy regulator proposes policy requiring data centers to match load with new power generation
Data center operators would have to match new capacity with generation and/or storage
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Irish regulator clears Phoenix Tower International's €971m Cellnex tower deal
Says that Phoenix has agreed to a number of commitments to ease competition worries
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BT Ireland sells wholesale and enterprise units to Cordiant
Reports of a sale to Cordiant's Speed Fibre Group surfaced earlier this week
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Cordiant in talks to snap up BT Ireland's wholesale and infrastructure assets - report
A deal could be announced within the next few weeks
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Microsoft files for three Ireland-UK subsea cables
Company looks to develop cables linking Wales to Dublin and Wexford
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Amazon files for Ireland-to-US subsea cable
Company looks to land cable in County Cork on the south cost of Ireland
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Red Admiral to build 250MW data center in Westmeath, Ireland
Lumcloon Energy subsidiary will build the first energy-independent data center in the country
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Equinix to acquire BT Group's Irish data center business
The transaction is expected to be completed in H1 2025
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Mercury Engineering to create 1,000 jobs over the next five years
The company operates across 16 markets in Europe
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Subsea power cable connecting UK and Ireland exchanges power for the first time
The cable has a nominal capacity of 500MW
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Opposition to gas-powered data center planned for Drogheda, Ireland
Will hit sustainability efforts, campaigners warn
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AVK sees record deployments of Rolls Royce HVO-ready generators, eyes European expansion of microgrid solution for data centers
Rolls Royce has supplied more than 500 generators to AVK
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Echelon appeals ruling to block Dublin data center expansion
The company had applied to extend the existing ICT Facility
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Avaio files to build data centers in Mayo, Ireland
Company acquired land in Killala in 2022
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IaaS provider RackNerd expands offerings to Dublin, Ireland
Will operate from Digital Realty's DUB10 data center
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Irish military escorts Russian spy ship away from subsea cables
Friday incursion just the latest sighting of the Yantar
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DTCP launches new data center platform, GreenScale
CEO Dan Thomas joins from AtlasEdge, takes over DTCP's Atlantic Hub projects
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Macquarie-backed Viatel linked with BT Ireland - report
Other unnamed companies are also interested
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Amazon opens data center component recycling facility in Dublin, Ireland
Brings re:Cycle Reverse Logistics program to Europe
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Strike at Meta’s Clonee data center in Ireland deferred, case instead goes to court
Workers revolting against changing shift patterns