Posts Tagged ‘Ireland’

Microsoft signs new wind energy PPA for Ireland

October 30, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft signed a 15 year power purchase agreement with GE. ...

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New gas-powered data centres proposed to alleviate power constraints in Dublin

October 30, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports that a company linked to investment fund Oaktree Capital is planning to build th...

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Apple given green light for new Ireland data centre

October 16, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Ireland’s An Bord Pleanála gave its approval for Apple to go ahead with plans to build a $1b 166k...

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Microsoft attributes September Europe outage to faulty fire alarm

October 10, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Microsoft confirmed that an outage in late September was caused by a problem with the fire suppressi...

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Irish government pledges regulatory change to underpin data centre industry

September 29, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

The Irish government is considering new legislation to support the country’s data centre industry....

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Talend launches European data centres with AWS, data privacy angle

September 21, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Big data and cloud storage firm Talend will open cloud data centres in Frankfurt and Dublin. ...

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Microsoft to build power station to bypass constrained Dublin supply

September 19, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports indicate Microsoft will build a power station in Dublin to provide up to 18MW of...

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Keppel DC REIT acquires its second Dublin data centre in Ireland

September 13, 2017
Jabez Tan

Keppel DC REIT acquired Dataplex’s B10 Data Centre in Dublin, Ireland. ...

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Facebook mulls Irish data centre expansion

July 14, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Media reports Facebook is investigating expansion of its data centre campus in Ireland. ...

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CyrusOne buys land for Dublin data centre

July 13, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Local media reports CyrusOne’s €6.7m acquisition of a 15 acre plot in south Dublin has been appr...

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AWS VPS hosting service adds global footprint

May 31, 2017
Philbert Shih

AWS introduced a new VPS hosting service called Lightsail back in late 2016. ...

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Capita data centre outage impacts UK, Ireland customers

May 30, 2017
Sacha Kavanagh

Another day, another data centre outage. This time a Capita data centre in the UK experienced an out...

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