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
Pro Singapore, Madrid named biggest movers in latest data centre rankings However Singapore remains one of the most expensive places to buy data centre land in the world 21 Jan
Pro Singapore to resume construction on new data centres following energy efficiency review New data centres will need to be more resource efficient and existing ones may need to be retrofitted 14 Jan
Blogs Time to put on the Green jersey Billy MacInnes asks why there is a lack of clarity over the role of data centres in climate policy 5 Nov
Blogs Data centres an easy target for criticism It is worth remembering that data centres have a vital role for today’s connected society, says Jason Walsh 3 Nov
Blogs How do you like your outages? Black or brown? Poor planning for data centres will lead to unprecedented demands on the national grid, says Billy MacInnes 7 Oct
Pro Schneider Electric’s IP and NEMA rated EcoStruxure micro data centres available in Europe Can be deployed 20% faster, while saving up to 40% in field engineering costs 17 May
Trade Intel’s data centre business shrinks 20% year-on-year Overall revenues remain flat as a surge in notebook CPU sales soften the blow 23 Apr
Pro Echelon to use biogas power at Wicklow data centre site Biocore partnership creates virtuous cycle of electricity production 13 Apr
Trade Johnson Controls to acquire Silent-Aire in €870m deal Looking to accelerate growth in hyper-scale data centre vertical 12 Apr
Trade MHR commits €1.5m to Irish expansion Equinix collaboration will see large deployment in data centres in Blanchardstown and Clondalkin 24 Feb
Pro AWS enlists partners to encourage mainframe-to-cloud migration Competency Program to include even more services to migrate mainframe workloads to the cloud 7 Dec
Pro Debunking the myths around data centres Data centres are more than empty warehouses, they're legitimate job creators 23 Nov
Trade SSE Renewables, Echelon Data Centres deal supports 250 jobs for Wicklow Landmark deal is a step forward for the renewable energy and data centre sectors 17 Nov
Pro Pluribus goes big to support larger, multi-vendor data centre networks Adaptive Cloud Fabric from Pluribus can now support up to 1,024 switches in a unified fabric 8 Oct
Pro VMware plan disaggregates servers, offloads network virtualisation and security Project Monterey includes NVIDIA, Intel and goes a long way to meld bare metal servers, graphics processing units 30 Sep
Pro Dublin to enter top five of data centre cities in Europe Report reveals capital needs to increase data processing by 20% by 2024 29 Sep
Trade Data centre industry to add more than 1,800 jobs over coming year Host in Ireland survey indicates positive outlook for data centre ecosystem 8 Sep
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