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There is an average of three devices for every human on the planet, and the number’s growing exponentially. Most of these devices rely on cloud communications, built upon platforms that comprise sophisticated software and hardware systems networked across regions. Technology companies utilise data centres to provide the backbone for all the internet and cloud services […]

As the world comes to terms with the reality of climate change, the drive to replace fossil fuels with sustainable alternatives and the need to stop generating waste is now imperative. Reduce, reuse, recycle – it’s a mantra that we’re all familiar with.  The race is on to see data centres powered cleanly and sustainably, […]

Data centres are currently responsible for 5-10% of total global electricity consumption (as part of the IT sector) and approximately 0.3% of global carbon emissions.  Perhaps not yet a grave cause for concern, yet according to recent predictions, by 2025, data centre energy consumption will account for 3.2% of worldwide carbon emissions, and by 2040, […]

Construction work continues on our DUB10 (Clondalkin) site as we deliver the electricity substation (to be handed off to Eirgrid on completion) that will be necessary to power the 90MW data centre from the grid. The substation will also potentially return power to the grid from our on-site 100MW energy centre. The first tranche of […]

At the beginning of 2019, Echelon Data Centres announced an investment of €1bn in two data centre developments in Ireland.

The two facilities combined would have a capacity of at least 184MW, planning permission was in place and firm power agreements had been secured. The advent of sites with capacity of 100MW or more was (and is) a game-changer.

Echelon Data Centres, the Irish-owned data centre owner and operator, and Biocore Environmental Ltd, an Irish company generating renewable power from biosolids, have reached an agreement to co-locate a biogas production facility on the Echelon DUB20 data centre site in Arklow, Co Wicklow, Ireland.

Ireland has the potential to become a leading global provider of sustainable data centre solutions if it harnesses the expertise that exists and opportunities which are developing in the sector.

That’s the key takeaway from Data Centres 2021 – Power and Influence, a new report published by Echelon Data Centres, the international data centre infrastructure developer.