Big data is big business. But building data centres is also a massive growth industry. And, over the last decade, Winthrop, a Dublin engineering business, has emerged as a leading contractor in the lucrative sector, working on data centres all over the world. A list of its current projects gives a sense of the size and scope of its operations. In Amsterdam, it is building a 20MW turnkey data centre for a major US client, plus a second 28MW centre for another US multinational. There are further live data centre projects in Norway, Munich, and Warsaw. In Ireland, a favoured…

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