Digital Realty acquires 10-acre development in West Dublin

The site is capable of supporting the phased development of approximately 11.5 megawatts of data centre space across four buildings, totalling around 193,000 square feet of space.

“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, CEO 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.”

Adam Levine, vice president, sales for Digital Realty, said 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,” he said. “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.

“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 99.999% 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, the digital real estate consultancy acting on behalf of Profile Park’s owners, said Digital Realty’s decision to locate in the park further endorses its “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 centre 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,” he said.

IDA Ireland CEO, Barry O’Leary, said Digital Realty’s proposal to provide a substantial new data centre footprint in Dublin would be a great addition to the existing infrastructure and strongly enhances Ireland’s attractiveness as a leading location for international services activity.

“The new site will deploy the latest eco-friendly technology, which when complemented with Irish weather conditions, will result in one of the most energy efficient facilities in the world. IDA Ireland warmly welcomes Digital Realty’s investment and looks forward to working closely with the company in the future.”