Ireland’s data centre dilemma

Global tech giants are lining up to build data storage facilities in this country, but many observers are sceptical of their true worth

Tanya Duncan, Interxion Ireland ‘One of Ireland’s global propositions is that we are home to the hyperscale and the enterprise-sized data centres’
Tommy Fitzpatrick, global account director for CBRE in Ireland, thinks Brexit may be positive for Irish data centres Pic: Fergal Phillips

Data. It’s all about data. Data is the driver of this era’s industrial revolution. Streams of data have created new infrastructure, new companies, new economies - ultimately resulting in a new industry.

In the 1940s, computers were so big that they were housed in a room on their own. Today, the data our computers ...