Amazon data centre plan for hearing

Amazon executives will come face to face with the two objectors opposing the first phase of the company’s €1bn data centre plan for Dublin. This follows a ruling by Bord Pleanála that an oral hearing will be held into the plan at its offices on September 26.

Amazon executives will argue the merits of their plan with the two objectors, Allan Daly and David Hughes, who appealed Fingal County Council’s decision to give Amazon firm, Amazon Data Services Ireland Limited the go-ahead for its project.

That company plans to initially build a 223,000sq ft data centre in Mulhuddart in north west Dublin and has told Fingal County Council it might build seven more data centres on the 26- hectare IDA-owned site.