Excess heat from Amazon's new data centre will be diverted to apartments and public buildings

Mike Beary, Amazon Web Services, with South Dublin County Council county architect Eddie Conroy, and chief executive Daniel McLoughlin, announcing the plan to use excess heat from Amazon's newly-completed datacentre to heat a range of buildings locally including affordable apartments. 

Excess heat from a new data centre is to heat 47,000 sq m of public sector buildings, 3,000 sq m of commercial space, and 135 affordable rental apartments in a development hailed as the first of its kind in Ireland. 

South Dublin County Council (SDCC) said it had established Ireland’s first publicly-owned, not-for-profit energy company to provide low-carbon heat to local community buildings after teaming up with Amazon Web Services and Fortum eNext.