€200m data centres planned for Cork

A €200m data centre development on the outskirts of Cork City is being hailed as a vital new resource to the city’s infrastructure that will underpin employment growth in the coming years.

JCD Group, the commercial property company owned by developer John Cleary, is awaiting planning permission to develop the 32-acre site at the former Mitsui Denman plant in Little Island.

The development will create 150 permanent jobs and hundreds more during construction with the first phase of the project set to deliver three separate data centres.