With a record €10.6 billion in revenue last year, and a fresh €2 billion invested in buildings and equipment over the same period, Amazon’s Irish data-centre unit displays aggressive growth. Yet compared with global annual results disclosed by the US online giant for its cloud computing division Amazon Web Services (AWS), its Irish subsidiary is in fact expanding at a much slower pace. Only once in recent history has Amazon Data Services Ireland invested more in its data centres. That was in 2022, when the company added €2.6 billion to its fleet of buildings and equipment, driven by a €1.8…

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