Environmental activists to protest against planned data centre in Co Clare

Developer Art Data Centres was granted planning by Clare County Council for the €450m Ennis project, claiming it will create up to 450 permanent jobs when the campus is fully operational, and that up to 1,200 will be employed during construction.

The expansion of data centres in Ireland "has brought our energy grid to the brink", environmental activists in Clare have claimed as they prepare to protest against a planned new facility in the county.

Futureproof Clare, Ecojustice Ireland, and groups such as Friends of the Irish Environment (FoE) have strenuously vowed to resist the planned €450m data centre in Ennis, which was given the green light by the local authority this month.