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Exclusive: Amazon boss warns ‘major risk’ looming for Ireland

Neil Morris said Ireland was at risk of losing out to other countries as a result of its policy around data centres

Neil Morris: ‘The FDI pipeline doesn’t have a big valve on it that you can switch it off and then switch it back on again in a few years’. Picture: Fergal Phillips

There is now a “major risk” Ireland will lose out on billions of euros in foreign investment and thousands of new jobs as long as a block on data centres remains in place, Amazon’s Ireland boss has warned.

Speaking exclusively to the Business Post, Neil Morris, head of the tech giant’s European cloud infrastructure operations, warned the pipeline of foreign direct investment (FDI) will be redirected away from Ireland unless the government urgently addresses the ...