Tech giant met with officials in the Department of the Environment in July to discuss energy, data centre development and grid infrastructure

The pandemic has pushed companies to trust employees and take calculated risks to learn quickly because they understand the status quo poses a far greater risk to them, says Phil Le-Brun of Amazon Web Services

The hyper-scale data centre is the second of three planned for Drogheda and comes at a time when Eirgrid and the energy regulator are warning of ‘rolling blackouts’ due to the power demands of data centres

Being a successful businessman is one thing but being a successful boss and steering a ship the size of Amazon is another matter – something Jeff Bezos’s replacement is soon to find out

The Amazon founder is stepping down as ceo to devote more time to the Washington Post and his ambitions of space flight, yet he will still monitor his successor closely