DATA CENTRE operator Interxion has confirmed that StructureTone Ireland has been appointed to build its new €12 million Dublin facility. Ninety people will be employed during the construction phase.
The 2,455sq m data centre is Interxion’s second in Dublin and is scheduled to be open for business by February 2010, according to Tanya Duncan, managing director of Interxion Ireland.
Ms Duncan said StuctureTone are on-site and already well-advanced on the initial nine-month construction phase.
She said Interxion’s Irish business had grown considerably in the last two years. A recent IDC report found that demand for data centre space will grow at a compound annual rate of 23 per cent over the next four years, and Ms Duncan said she was seeing similar growth in the Irish market.
Interxion operates 25 carrier-neutral data centres in 13 cities across Europe, selling space directly to telecoms providers, large firms and other technology companies.
Data centres, which house banks of computer servers in optimal environments with mutiple high speed connections to the internet, are becoming increasingly important as businesses outsource their IT and embrace models such as cloud computing.
Ms Duncan said recent reductions in electricity prices were making Ireland more attractive as a location for international firms to locate their servers. She said the mild Irish climate also meant that the cost of cooling data centres was significantly less than in many other European countries.
There has been significant investment in local data centres in the last two years, most notably Microsoft’s $500 million facility which opened in September.
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