Work to begin on Amazon Mulhuddart data campus

Planning for the first phase of the project – known as ‘Project G’ – was originally granted in 2017, but was subsequently appealed by environmental campaigners

Work is expected to begin this week on the first phase of Amazon’s giant €1 billion data centre project in Mulhuddart, after a contract with construction firm PJ Hegarty and Sons was confirmed.

Planning for the first phase of the project – known as ‘Project G’ – was originally granted in 2017, but was subsequently appealed by environmental campaigners. They claimed that the environmental assessments required under planning law had failed to take ...