The tech giant wants to develop a third centre at Grange Castle

Google Ireland has said it needs to build a third data centre at Grange Castle in south Dublin in order to meet the increasing demand for ICT services in Ireland. “Without this project progressing, [we] will not be able to provide services to these customers,” it has warned. The tech giant has lodged a planning application with South Dublin County Council for a 72,400 square metre data centre at the Grange Castle business park.

In a planning report submitted with the application, Arup says that once the data centre is operational in 2027, it will provide about 50 extra jobs, including 25 direct staff. About 800 temporary jobs would be created during the construction phase.

Data centres have become increasingly contentious due to amount of energy they consumer – close to 20pc of the power on the Irish electricity grid.

However the Government has remained supportive of them, because the computing industry is supporting more than 90,000 jobs.

Google’s planning report says the company has been in Ireland for more than 20 years, and at the Grange Castle campus for more than 10. After an initial investment in a data centre there in 2012, it completed a second one in 2019.

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