Data Centre in Grange Castle

Nitrogan

With a housing apocalypse in Dublin why is this happening?

Hector Bellend

Its not happening.

The tree huggers think its better that they object to progress

Nitrogan

Nitrogan wrote: »

With a housing apocalypse in Dublin why is this happening?

Because datacentres are paid for by business, not by local authority housing budgets.

biko

Not sure what one has to do with the other.

Nor am I sure why this is in a national forum rather than a regional one.

salmocab

Grange castle has plenty of Data centers already and is popular for various reasons. There are acres upon acres of land out there and this will have zero effect on housing one way or another

godtabh

salmocab wrote: »

Grange castle has plenty of Data centers already and is popular for various reasons. There are acres upon acres of land out there and this will have zero effect on housing one way or another

Lots of land but no power

Pac1Man

Feck off ye bollix. That's how I earn me livin!

Dravokivich

Nitrogan wrote: »

With a housing apocalypse in Dublin why is this happening?

I'm just down the road in clondalkin and there's no biblical destruction going on with any of the houses round these parts.

Nitrogan

..but the homeless

It's an area close to transport and amenities.

Why use it for a data centre they could locate in Donegal?

Potential-Monke

Who wants to live and work in Donegal?

cython

Nitrogan wrote: »

..but the homeless

It's an area close to transport and amenities.

Why use it for a data centre they could locate in Donegal?

If you think Donegal has the IT infrastructure to properly run a data centre (redundant high bandwidth data links, redundant connections to the electricity grid, etc.) readily available, then I'd suggest you revisit your understanding of what they actually require. Not to mention that if anything on site fails that is not in the skillset of the "moles" who look after day-to-day routine maintenance, it's too far removed from most servicing agents with the scale to support the operation, e.g. aircon/refrigeration, large-scale electrical, etc.

You could equally ask why Amazon have a multitude of DCs in the vicinity of Tallaght, Dublin 15 and Clarehall, all of which are probably at least as well connected as (if not better than) Grange Castle in terms of moving people, but they do, and they're hiring the aforementioned "moles" like mad to support them.

Grayson

Nitrogan wrote: »

..but the homeless

It's an area close to transport and amenities.

Why use it for a data centre they could locate in Donegal?

You happen to know a lot of people in Donegal who need data center jobs?

Why not house people in Donegal. It's the same reason. It's the backend of nowhere.

(BTW, I do love Donegal. It's beautiful and the people are lovely, but as a tech person, it'd be next to impossible for me to work there plus I'd be leaving all my family and friends behind)

tabby aspreme

No need for a Data Center in Donegal, don't they have everything is on file in the filing cabinet

cython

tabby aspreme wrote: »

No need for a Data Center in Donegal, don't they have everything is on file in the filing cabinet