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December 4, 2022

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Microsoft plans private power plant on €900m data centre site

Microsoft plans to build an unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant as part of a new €900 million data centre development in Dublin due to its concerns about the severe constraints on Ireland’s energy grid, the Business Post can reveal.

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The planned investment will bring the total number of data centres operated by the US tech giant in Ireland to 15.