Dublin
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Vantage Data Centers has entered the Irish market with the development of a multi-phase data centre campus (DUB1). -
Around 21 new data centres are being planned outside of the Greater Dublin area due to constraints on the energy grid around Ireland’s capital.
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Liberty Global’s Virgin Media in Ireland is to try out a free Wifi network in the city of Dublin.
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Enet has announced it will invest over €50 million in fibre networks in multiple locations across Ireland.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has been granted permission by Dublin City Council to develop two new data centre buildings in North Dublin.
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The utilities regulator in Ireland has issued new rules on data centre grid connections, stating that if it takes no action there could be "rolling blackouts".
Forthcoming events
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BT's new procurement arm, the Dublin-based BT Sourced, is looking to fill more than 70 roles in the Irish capital.
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Ireland’s largest open access network provider Enet has invested €1.5 million in expanding its fibre network in Dublin.
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Ireland’s fibre-based €3 billion wholesale national rural broadband project has connected its first home — a family in Cork, close to the country’s south coast.
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There will be more consolidation in the data centre and telecoms markets in 2021, say two forecasters.
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BT Group is to launch a Dublin-based newco for procurement as it targets savings of £2 billion by 2025.
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CyrusOne has officially broken ground on its first data centre campus in Dublin, Ireland named Dublin I.
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Avelacom has selected Interxion, a European provider of carrier and cloud-neutral colocation data centre services, as its data centre partner of choice in its move into the Irish market.
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[Pictured L-R: Peter Evans, strategy director, BT Ireland; Nick Hilliard, CTO, INEX; Eileen Gallagher, marketing and membership development, INEX; Mark Fagan, head of data centre services, BT Ireland]
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Zayo Group has announced the expansions of its fibre networks in four European markets, including London, Paris, Dublin and Amsterdam.
