Trade Meta wants to raise $29bn for AI data centres Facebook parent company seeks external financing to expand its AI infrastructure 1 Jul
Pro Schneider Electric accelerates development and deployment of AI factories with Nvidia Partnership to align with European Commission’s AI initiatives 13 Jun
Pro AWS chief calls on UK to invest more in nuclear power Data centre giant prepares investment of more than $80bn to meet demands of AI boom 20 May
Radio Going dark Spain, Portugal and France suffer a mystery power cut, and Amazon gets ready to take on Starlink 2 May
Life Alphabet invests $75bn in AI and data centre expansion Plans centre on continued support for core services and Gemini AI model 11 Apr
Trade OpenAI acquires stake in data centre builder CoreWeave IPO candidate expected to invest $2.2bn in Europe this year 13 Mar
Trade Crusoe opens European headquarters in Dublin, plans 100 new hires AI infrastructure provider makes strategic investment to support European region 12 Feb
Pro US primary beneficiary of Microsoft $80bn investment in data centres for AI Brad Smith lays out AI plans during second Trump administration 10 Jan
Blogs A chorus of disapproval for data centres A UCC report is calling for urgent action to meet Ireland climate targets. Billy MacInnes worries it will become background noise and nothing more 12 Dec
Life Data centre energy use undermining efforts to achieve climate action plan targets Call for moratorium as report finds more than fifth of electricity generated in the state used by data centres 10 Dec
Blogs Is the nuclear question even worth asking? Microsoft wants to reopen the Three Mile Island because of AI. Billy MacInnes wonders at what cost 17 Oct
Blogs CSO figures shine a light on the impact of data centres Ireland's relationship with data centres is beyond complicated, says Billy MacInnes 2 Aug
Pro DCU research project to develop laser-powered information transfer component for data centres Viable product could be worth billions as demand for electricity skyrockets 24 Jul
Trade Microsoft agrees renewable energy deal with SSE Renewables, FuturEnergy Ireland Electricity to be produced by onshore wind turbines at Lenalea Wind Farm 2 May
Pro Vantage Data Centers reveals plans for Dublin campus Construction phase to create more than 1,000 jobs 24 Apr
Blogs FUD surrounds scale of data centre impact Data centres are power hungry beasts, says Billy MacInnes, maybe it's a good idea for them to want a low profile 12 Apr
Pro Schneider Electric, Nvidia collaborate on data centre infrastructure New standards to become openly available 21 Mar
Pro How AI generates both climate pollution and solutions AI tools help climate scientists do better work, but critics say their massive energy demands are a serious climate threat 20 Mar
Pro CeADAR leads €8.7m EU energy reduction project for data centres and IoT Manolo will also create framework for countering lack of trust in AI 19 Feb
Pro Ireland is about to get a next-generation data centre powered entirely by solid oxide fuel Lumcloon Energy and Korea's SK Ecoplant are turning to fuel cells in a bid to curb reliance on grid-based energy sources 13 Nov
Blogs Does the EU need a cloud to compete with AWS and Azure? An aerospace and defence boss has called for sovereign cloud in risky world, notes Jason Walsh 27 Oct
Blogs The Green case for data centres doesn’t stack up Billy MacInnes asks why the Minister for the Environment is so in favour of power-hogging data centres 28 Sep
Trade AWS gets green light to construct three data centres in North Dublin Estimated to produce an annual 607,523 tonnes of CO2 20 Sep
Pro Business leaders warn energy crisis will impact emission reduction plans Schneider Electric report accuses many UK and Irish organisations of 'kicking the can down the road' 8 Sep
Blogs The Freud in the machine Ireland’s anxiety about data centres reveals a deeper uncertainty about technology and our lives, says Jason Walsh 16 Jun
Blogs Taking control of data centres is a low-RISC move Arm’s rise to challenge the x86 architecture is not the only transformation in silicon. Numerous tailwinds could give RISC-V a boost, says Jason... 6 Apr
Pro Equinix is growing data centre-powered fruit and veg The data centre company has installed a rooftop farm at one of its sites to make use of excess heat 15 Mar
Life TikTok’s two new European data centres to address data protection concerns The company is under pressure to prove its user data isn’t being accessed by the Chinese state 20 Feb
Blogs Government shies away from ‘Icelandic solution’ to data centre sustainability Billy MacInnes asks why there is such reticence about finding new ways to meet energy targets 22 Dec
Pro Equinix commits to more efficient temperature, humidity standards to optimise data centre energy use This is the first such commitment by an operator of colocation data centres 13 Dec
Pro Microsoft says its data centres in Ireland will be supported by 100% renewable energy by 2025 Renewable energy contracts will see it contribute near 30% of Ireland’s corporate power purchase agreement target by 2030 24 Nov
Trade Riello UPS expands into Ireland with new branch Subsidiary expects to be fully operational by the new year, with a dedicated team and new premises in Dublin 11 Nov
Blogs The music of data centres You can store music in a data centre but the no substitute for lived experience, says Billy MacInnes 23 Sep
Blogs Taking the heat on data centres News that the data centre ban is having a negative economic impact must be weighed against other energy needs, but it should not be ignored, writes... 21 Sep
Pro Gartner predicts energy crisis will hit data centre budgets by 40% or more Larger cloud providers have no intention to increase customer fees, for now 16 Sep
Pro Ennis data centre first to be approved under new government policy The Art Data Centre Campus will create between 400- 450 permanent jobs when the data centre campus is fully operational 9 Aug
Pro Electrical explosion reported at Google’s Iowa data centre Three people working on a substation near the facility were critically injured, according to reports 9 Aug
Life Google and Oracle data centres hit by issues amidst hottest ever UK day The tech giants were forced to remedy servers as cooling systems strained against 40C outside temperatures 20 Jul
Radio Schneider Electric’s Marc Garner on data centres and sustainability Getting the balance right between power management and innovation 3 Jun
Pro Data centres that switch from HDDs to SSDs use 70% less power This is part of Huawei’s strategy to help data centres go green through data storage 16 May
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