Digital Realty breaks ground in Dublin

Digital Realty’s announcement further reinforces Ireland’s standing as a leading international location for data centres. Digital Realty’s clients include global corporations, IT managed services and cloud providers, financial institutions, and multinational technology firms. Upon completion, the four building campus will total approximately 193,000 gross square feet, with a total IT capacity of over 15 MW.

“Ireland is a key market for strategic growth for our global customer base,” said Bernard Geoghegan, Managing Director, EMEA for Digital Realty. “We have over 34 MW of data centre capacity in Dublin, more than 30 employees supporting our clients’ operations, and have invested close to €120 million in our data centre facilities on behalf of our clients. Furthermore, as we continue to extend our connectivity ecosystem across our European portfolio, we can now offer clients cost effective links to all of our European data centres, and a much improved total cost of ownership proposition.”

Commenting at the ceremony, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD said: “Big data is a sector we have identified in our Action Plan for Jobs as offering particular potential for Ireland, and we have put in place a series of measures to support growth in this area. Today’s announcement that Digital Realty, a highly innovative company and a leader in this sector, is building a data centre campus in Dublin, making a significant investment over the phased development and creating up to 150 construction jobs , is a major boost and a further indication of the potential in this area. I wish them every success; we in Government will be working hard to ensure that we see further announcements like this in the coming years."

Barry O’Leary, Chief Executive of IDA Ireland also supported today’s announcement: “Ireland’s data centre offering will be further enhanced by this investment from Digital Realty at Profile Park. Digital Realty is a leading innovator in its industry and Ireland can only benefit from having an enduring relationship with the company in the years ahead.”

Speaking at the ground-breaking ceremony, Gary Keogh, Sales Director of Digital Realty in Ireland, said, "Ireland remains an important hub for data centres in Europe, and continues to attract foreign investment and multinational companies. As a result, there has been a surge in the demand for compute, data processing and data storage. At Digital Realty, we enable local and international companies alike to turn their data centre strategy into a data advantage.”

Keogh went on to say, “Digital Realty is completely committed to Ireland and the Irish market. We have initiated an aggressive strategy targeting both local and multinational corporations, including large technology and Internet companies. Dublin has an ideal climate for deploying our indirect air optimisation design, which significantly improves our clients’ data centre's energy efficiency by lowering PUE (Power Utilisation Effectiveness) and therefore their total cost of occupancy.”