Big Data giant to build Dublin centre
08/02/2012 at 11:22
Wall Street listed Big Data group, Digital Realty Trust, has bought a ten-acre development site in Dublin where it plans a phased development of around 11.5 megawatts of data centre space across four buildings.
Recent months have see renewed interest in Ireland, Iceland and Scotland as global data hubs because of our relatively benign climate that makes the cooling of huge banks of servers cheaper and easier.
"Dublin remains an important data centre market for both local and multinational corporations, including large technology and Internet companies as well as IT service providers," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty. "Using our phased development approach, this site will enable us to support our customers' expanding data centre needs by bringing data centre space online efficiently in terms of both time and cost."
"Dublin has an ideal climate for deploying an indirect air optimisation design. This significantly improves a data centre's energy efficiency by lowering its PUE power utilisation efficiency and therefore its total cost of occupancy. We expect to achieve PUEs of around 1.15 in our Profile Park facility, a substantial reduction from the electrical consumption typically required for cooling a data centre," added Adam Levine, Vice President, Sales for Digital Realty. "The acquisition of this site enables us to provide customers with both large and smaller requirements through a variety of flexible data centre solutions to meet their needs. Our Turn-Key Datacentres have a six-year record of 99.999pc uptime. For our customers, this means they can focus on their operations while we maintain and operate the supporting power and cooling systems for maximum resiliency." Willie Norse of Agar, digital real estate consultants acting on behalf of the owners of Profile Park, commented, "We are delighted to welcome a company of the calibre of Digital Realty to Profile Park. Their strategic decision to locate here further endorses Profile Park's reputation as 'Ireland's Datacenter Cluster', particularly in light of the recent, similarly sized acquisition by Google in the Park and also the expansion of Microsoft's existing data center and the arrival of Telecity to the location. Profile Park is very definitely one of the most active locations in the European data centre marketplace at present, as a consequence of a number of factors including its world class fibre provision, temperate climate allowing for efficient cooling, and attractive fiscal and legal structures in Ireland."