Amazon is planning yet another data center in the Irish capital, in parallel with the upcoming €1bn ($1.19bn) campus in the north-west of Dublin (Mulhuddart), according to The Irish Independent. 

The facility is expected to cost €45 million ($52.70m). It will span 88,500 square feet (8220 sq m), and will be built adjacently to one of the company’s existing site in Tallaght, in the south of Dublin.

Roadblocks 

Ireland presents favorable conditions for data center operators, due in part to the country’s geographic position with regards to Europe and the United States that makes it a landing point for many transatlantic submarine communications cables, combined with generous tax subsidies awarded both locally and nationally.

However - as Amazon has learnt the hard way with its so-called ‘Project G’, a planned extension to a €200 million ($238.58m), 223,000 square feet (20,700 sq m) campus which would ultimately see seven data centers built on one location in Mulhuddart – under Irish law, just a handful of objectors can cause enough of a stir to delay, if not foil plans to build data centers in the country.

Alan Daly, one of three activists protesting Apple’s Athenry project which, after years of deliberation, has now been put on hold, requested that the local council assure that the country’s renewable energy framework has the capacity to bear the weight of such a project, a task which is currently being performed by the Irish Department of Communications, Climate Action and Environment.

Planning watchdog An Bord Pleanála was due to make a decision in November last year, but, similarly to what happened in the Apple Athenry case time and time again, the decision has been delayed.