New 13,000 square feet extension opened by minister

The Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment Micheál Martin today officially opened a new €2.5m extension to Data Electronics’ Data Centre facility in Kilcarbery Park, Dublin.

The 13,000 sq feet expansion takes the facility up to 21,000 sq feet.

Vodafone is the first major company to be hosted at the new facility following a multi-million euro competitive contract to house part of its voice and data infrastructure. The multi-year contract will enable Vodafone to build more resilience and capacity on its network to deliver its 3G services, increasing its speed to market with the highest availability of service.

The expansion is the first of its kind in Ireland since the downturn in the data centre market in 2000, highlighting an important resurgence and demand by businesses to support and service their IT infrastructure needs to provide more scalable, reliable, and secure environments at substantial cost savings.

Commenting at the opening, Minister Martin said: “The world class services on offer by Data Electronics acts as a strong magnet of attraction for further investment, both from Irish companies seeking to expand into new areas of opportunity and overseas companies seeking to service their European or global headquarter operations from Ireland.”

“The availability of facilities such as the Data Electronics operation has and will continue to be hugely influential on the decisions by many world leading companies to locate their operations in Ireland”, he concluded.