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Apple Plant in Galway

  • 22-08-2016 12:36pm
    #1
    b4bmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭


    Anybody have any idea who is going to be contracted to construct this?


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  • #2
    Chromosphere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Chromosphere


    It's not a plant, it's just a data centre.
    Contracts haven't even been tendered yet. So, could be anyone.

    In general the construction of data centres physically isn't all that complicated. It's just rack space. The majority of the infrastructure is just electrical and HVAC stuff.

    There will probably be a lead contractor / engineering company that is used to doing turn key data centre buildings and the kit out is likely to be done by whoever supplies the actual servers. Apple doesn't build servers itself, but it's well capable of delivering a data centre design in-house.

    Long term employment from this won't be huge as it's just a data centre that will be run by a few people on site to maintain the servers. That's pretty much all that is ever there. They're basically no different from a large telephone exchange or something of that nature in terms of people needed.


  • #3
    b4bmm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 335 ✭✭b4bmm


    I think you are under estimating the construction project.
    The plant will be run by renewable energy.
    There will be a substation built to connect direct to the grid.
    There will be the best part of 20 generators installed as backup.
    Not to mention all the data and fibre optics and associated support systems needed for a job of 850M.

    Construction is planned to create 300 jobs and Long term employment more than 100 jobs, thats a decent amount.
    This is the first of a proposed 8 total data centre buildings planned by Apple over the next 10-15 years.
    Given that they expect to be up and running by next year and will start in coming months,Im sure contractors will
    already have been asked to tender and would already be in the final stages of getting selected.


  • #4
    Chromosphere
    Closed Accounts Posts: 204 ✭✭Chromosphere


    A lot of future developments will actually depend on what's negotiated between the UK and EU on post-brexit economics and data protection legislation.

    Hosting UK data in the EU may not be as straight forward and many Irish data centres primary target market is actually the UK. Continental Europe's typically served closer to home i.e. you'll find a lot more data centres around Benelux serving central and western continental europe due to dense fibre connectivity and proximity.

    There's a fairly strong possibility the UK may get more paranoid about monitoring cloud services like this for security reasons and could easily just easily break away from EU single market rules that allow for transnational data centres.

    Sadly, Brexit will have thrown a lot of this into the air.


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