€200m data centre set for Cork

Cork is set become a big data hub following confirmation that a €200m data centre campus will begin operations on the outskirts of the city next year.

A reliable high-voltage power supply and a climate which provides free indirect air cooling helped secure the joint venture investment by US firm T5 Data Centers and Cork-based JCD Group.

The 323,000sq ft, three-building, 32 MW T5@Ireland campus earmarked for Little Island, which has full planning permission, will be fed by 60MW of power from a nearby substation, and will be connected directly to two super-fast fibre cables — one which has linked the US to Ireland since 2015, and the other which will link Ireland to mainland Europe via France by 2019.