Ireland’s hyperscale data centre developments continue to gain pace as a new €1.2 billion (US$1.42 billion) data centre campus is put forward for approval in Ennis, Co. Clare, 245 Km west of Dublin. Located between Galway and Limerick, the Art Data Centre Campus is seeking a 10-year planning permission and has been proposed by Tom McNamara & Partners. Projected t...

Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) has formally applied for a five-year extension to its planning permit to build a US$1 billion data centre in Galway, western Ireland. The data centre project was due to be developed on a 490-acre greenfield site at Derrydonnell Woods near Athenry which was originally bought for $15 million in 2014. Planning permission to build a cloud facility was grant...

Power management company Eaton (NYSE: ETN) has completed the acquisition of a 50% stake in Jiangsu YiNeng Electric’s busway business, which manufactures and markets busway products in China and had sales of $60 million in 2020. Howard Liu, president, Asia-Pacific Region, Electrical Sector and Corporate China, Eaton, said: “This strategic agreement with YiNeng marks an e...