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Apple To Spend 750 Million In Galway

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  • 23-02-2015 9:47am
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    JONJO THE MISER
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    Great news,Apple is to spend 750 million on a new data centre in Galway creating hundreds of jobs, take that Dublin.
    Hopefully more companies will follow and locate in the west.


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    eet fuk
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    As a Dub, I think this is great news. I hate how centralised everything is.


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    stimpson
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    It only takes a couple of shaved monkeys to run a data centre.


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    zl1whqvjs75cdy
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    *Awaits corporation tax rant*. Great news for Ireland and for the West.


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    whiskeyman
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    Low lie, the fields of Athenry,
    Where once we watched the data centres fry...


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    circadian
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    Fantastic, the last thing I want is recruiters offering me positions at some cult.


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    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Great news,Apple is to spend 750 million on a new data centre in Galway creating hundreds of jobs, take that Dublin.
    Hopefully more companies will follow and locate in the west.

    Hundreds of jobs during its construction. I can't imagine a data centre needs hundreds of employees. Unless they intend to power the centre by having red-faced Galwegians furiously pedalling fixed bicycles.
    'Faster Paddy Joe, someone is creating an iTunes account'.


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    DoYouEvenLift
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    Aren't there plans to also develop some small island off the west coast of Ireland for tech as well? I remember someone posting about it on here and calling it sillicon valley-esque


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    Tefral
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    Besides the construction jobs, there won't be many once this is complete. The biggest employee presence usually at a data centre is security staff.


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    Phoebas
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    cronin_j wrote: »
    Besides the construction jobs, there won't be many once this is complete. The biggest employee presence usually at a data centre is security staff.

    100 people to operate it when complete according to Newstalk.
    Not to be sniffed at.


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    Eugene Norman
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    circadian wrote: »
    Fantastic, the last thing I want is recruiters offering me positions at some cult.

    but do they hire Micky D employees?


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    Aongus Von Bismarck
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    cronin_j wrote: »
    Besides the construction jobs, there won't be many once this is complete. The biggest employee presence usually at a data centre is security staff.

    In fairness, it is good news regardless of the number of jobs. It shows real confidence in Ireland's electricity and broadband networks.


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    Eugene Norman
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    Aongus Von Bismarck wrote: »
    Hundreds of jobs during its construction. I can't imagine a data centre needs hundreds of employees. Unless they intend to power the centre by having red-faced Galwegians furiously pedalling fixed bicycles.
    'Faster Paddy Joe, someone is creating an iTunes account'.

    The data centre and the power plants will need employees.

    It's true that a lot of it is security. However there will be tech roles.


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    circadian
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    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    but do they hire Micky D employees?

    It's a cult they'll take anyone they can get. A good hygene engineer is hard to come by.


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    Cuddlesworth
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    Phoebas wrote: »
    100 people to operate it when complete according to Newstalk.
    Not to be sniffed at.

    They don't have to be on site and are most likely already employed.

    A bare handful of on-site techs(very low level hardware guys) and security staff is all thats needed.


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    Eugene Norman
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    circadian wrote: »
    It's a cult they'll take anyone they can get. A good hygene engineer is hard to come by.

    That's not my understanding of Apples corporate hiring policies. Anyone they can get won't fly. So maybe stick to flipping burgers?


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    Eugene Norman
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    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    They don't have to be on site and are most likely already employed.

    A bare handful of on-site techs(very low level hardware guys) and security staff is all thats needed.

    Clearly more people will be hired by whatever security company gets the deal specifically for this. Securitas, or whomever, are not going to suggest that they'll use the same guys who keep an eye over Super Macs and they'll at least pop over once a day.


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    circadian
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    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    That's not my understanding of Apples corporate hiring policies. Anyone they can get won't fly. So maybe stick to flipping burgers?

    Stick to guessing.


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    Eugene Norman
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    circadian wrote: »
    Stick to guessing.

    I'm not.


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    Cuddlesworth
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    Eugene Norman wrote: »
    Clearly more people will be hired by whatever security company gets the deal specifically for this. Securitas, or whomever, are not going to suggest that they'll use the same guys who keep an eye over Super Macs and they'll at least pop over once a day.

    Cameras into an existing control center(on Apples site), 1 guy on the gate 24/7. So maybe 4 extra staff in terms of a security company.

    I don't think people realize how little physical interaction there is with a modern datacenter.


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    Cookie_Monster
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    For the project in Athenry, Apple will recover land previously used for growing and harvesting non-native trees (and restore native trees to Derrydonnell Forest).

    they spin that like it's a good thing? I don't see how destroying a productive commercial forest (and carbon sink) in favour a facility that is a massive energy sink and heat producer is a great idea. but as usual, "we wern't moar jobzz" is all that really matters to Ireland Inc.


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    billbond4
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    Yeah and even the figure of 850million is missleading, thats the whole cost of the datacenter which will be running apple servers.
    So just wondering how much the building will cost to build as thats the real figure of the investment?


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    Egginacup
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    Cuddlesworth wrote: »
    Cameras into an existing control center(on Apples site), 1 guy on the gate 24/7. So maybe 4 extra staff in terms of a security company.

    I don't think people realize how little physical interaction there is with a modern datacenter.

    I've worked for many tech companies and have visited datacentres all over the place and they're eerie fucking places. One place in particular was nightmarish. One security guy and one or two others kind of just checking on a few basic things. The actual server farm was one of those lights-out operations, just the hum of hundreds of servers, switches and routers and tape backup robots rolling around on their pre-assigned routes loading tapes to and from storage cabinets.


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    Arsemageddon
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    Egginacup wrote: »
    The actual server farm was one of those lights-out operations, just the hum of hundreds of servers, switches and routers and tape backup robots rolling around on their pre-assigned routes loading tapes to and from storage cabinets.

    Ah yes, the low, sinister drone of Skynet hatching it's plan to exterminate humanity and take over the world.


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    stevedublin
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    stimpson wrote: »
    It only takes a couple of shaved monkeys to run a data centre.

    Whats wrong with unshaven monkeys?


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    awec
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    Anyone know why it's costing so much?


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    RobertKK
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    Apple are spending €1.7 billion on two data centres in the EU. Costing €850 million each, the other is in Denmark.
    All will be run on renewable energy.


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    JohnnyChimpo
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    stevedublin wrote: »
    Whats wrong with unshaven monkeys?

    The loose hairs get stuck in the servers fans, major fire hazard. jfc man have you never been inside a fully monkey-operated data centre?


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    18MonthsaSlave
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    awec wrote: »
    Anyone know why it's costing so much?
    an IBM 160core/4TB x86_64 server in a rack costs the guts of 100k euro.
    If you could actually sell on enterprise servers no datacentre in the country would be safe. A box van reversed up to the door of a datacentre could remove 10 or 20 million euros worth of servers. Fortunately hot enterprise servers aren't easily sold on.


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    Harry Palmr
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    Why does Galway get all the good stuff?


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    keithclancy
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    JONJO THE MISER wrote: »
    Great news,Apple is to spend 750 million on a new data centre in Galway creating hundreds of jobs, take that Dublin.
    Hopefully more companies will follow and locate in the west.

    Company that pays f*ck all tax in Ireland plans to hire 100 people to run a data center.

    Woo hoo.


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