For once, Ireland’s fickle weather is proving a good thing. Our new data centre in Dublin benefits from an advanced air-cooling system that uses cool Irish air to keep our computers running smoothly - and removes the need for costly and power-hungry chillers.
Located in West Dublin, the new facility has been designed to deliver lightning fast, secure online services - but not at the cost of energy-efficiency. We’re committed to carbon neutrality and over the years, have reduced our overall energy requirements to around 50% of the energy used by a typical data centre.
As a result, we can now pass on our energy savings to our users - for the same amount of energy a single small business uses to host its email locally, approximately 80 businesses could be hosted in the cloud .
Minister Richard Bruton TD, Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, visited the €75 million centre last week to officially open the facility. In his speech, he noted how the Irish government is committed to ambitious policies to take advantage of the country’s potential as a centre for cloud computing and the Internet - policies which would “contribute to Ireland’s economic recovery.”
Minister Bruton, TD, and Google's Paul Dunne inspect the air-cooling system
From left to right: Dan Costello, Director of Datacenter Operations, Google and John Herlihy, head of Google Ireland, with Minister Bruton, TD, as he switches on the air-cooling system.
Construction of the new Irish centre took just under one year to complete. More than 1,000 people working for 90 specialist building and engineering companies contributed to the build. In total approximately 400,000 man-hours were dedicated to the project. Google now employs over 2,500 people in Dublin, up from around 2000 people a year ago.
Google owns and operates energy-efficient data centres elsewhere in Europe, including Hamina in Finland and St Ghislain, in Belgium. Details of the locations of our data centres, how they work, their energy performance data, energy efficiency best practices and more can be found on our data centre website.
Posted by Al Verney, Senior Communications Manager, Google
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