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Apple is building an €850 million data centre in Athenry

The €1.7 billion investment in Europe was announced by the tech giant this morning.

Updated at 2pm

APPLE IS BUILDING its first data centres outside the US… and has chosen Athenry, Galway as one of the locations.

The €1.7 billion investment will also see a data centre constructed in Denmark’s central Jutland.

They will both power Apple’s online services, including the iTunes Store, the App Store, iMessage, Maps and Siri for European customers.

The 166,000-sq-metre centre will be built on a Coillte-owned greenfield site at Derrydonnell. According to IDA Ireland, the two state agencies worked together “on providing a property solution to secure the Apple investment announced today”.

Apple says it is recovering land previously used for growing and harvesting non-native trees. It has promised to restore native trees to the forest and power the centres with 100% renewable energy.

“The project will also provide an outdoor education space for local schools, as well as a walking trail for the community,” it said in the statement.

CEO Tim Cook said it was the biggest project in Europe to date, adding that hundreds of jobs will be created.

IDA Ireland believes there will be 300 jobs provided throughout the multiple phases of the project.

The announcement has been welcomed by Taoiseach Enda Kenny. ”It is a very significant investment in the West of Ireland and is fantastic news for Athenry with significant knock-on benefits for the region,” he said this morning.

At an event in Dublin this afternoon, he said he said he had had two “very positive meetings” with Cook – in Cork and in California.

He said those meetings had been an ideal opportunity to stress “the opportunities that exist for that kind of development here in Ireland”.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 8:28 AM

    Delighted that the person was rescued.
    And that the infernal noise polluting machine found its way to the depths of the ocean.
    Good outcome all round.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 8:54 AM

    Christ the summer is over put it back in the shed

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    Oct 24th 2016, 9:04 AM

    Jet skiers – idiots of the boating world ! Have rescued more of these adrift in Dublin bay then any other craft ! Always someone with no formal training or understanding about how to take a vessel to sea

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    Oct 24th 2016, 1:20 PM

    @ Daniel.. agreed…

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    Oct 24th 2016, 8:39 AM

    Glad it ended well, but they shouldn’t have gone out on their own.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 9:23 AM

    @Ariana: I wouldnt have put put my dog out in that wind yesterday. It amazes my how people make decisions such as this. I saw a couple yesterday walking along the top of the prom wall at Clontarf. Whats wrong with the path?

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    Oct 24th 2016, 9:40 AM

    At least they had the good scense to tell someone they were going. Give them credit for that.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 10:02 AM

    Terryglass in Tipperary is a great spot to go jet skiing. Cruise over to Portumna for a couple of pints and back again before dark.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 10:41 AM

    They’re not restricted by calendar dates and people have fun with them. Stop being so cynical, a person could have been lost here, thankfully that didn’t happen, he had a life jacket, someone obviously knew he was out there and well done to the emergency crew.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 10:25 AM

    They? Their? How many people?

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    Oct 24th 2016, 1:12 PM

    @Ian Phillip Creaner: It looks it was one person with many different personalities, a modern day Sybil.

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    Oct 24th 2016, 1:32 PM

    The sea was awful yesterday, very surprised they ventured out.

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