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Amazon ‘interested’ in operating contentious €1.2bn Clare data centre

New development is being built by Art Data Centres, an Irish firm - and has been subject to local opposition

Data centres: Art Data Centre Ltd has received planning permission for An Bord Pleanála for a data centre development in Ennis. Picture: Shutterstock

Amazon has expressed an interest in operating a huge new data centre in Ennis, Co Clare, after the €1.2 billion project received a green light from An Bord Pleanála this week, the Business Post has learned.

The tech giant told the planning regulator it would be “interested in occupying and operating” the 200MW data centre, which is being built by a Dublin-based company called Art Data Centres Limited.

The project was approved despite some local ...