Full coverage: Data centres

When the electricity grid operator failed to meet its targets during Covid, it cut performance-related pay, triggering a dispute with workers. Meanwhile, Eirgrid warns that curbs on new data centres in Dublin will be needed in the long term.

Winthrop Engineering has boomed along with Ireland’s data centre industry. Now its founder, Barry English, has started the process of selling the business. The Currency has obtained the pitchbook, which reveals its financial forecasts, business pipeline and its potential valuation.

Already the dominating player in Ireland’s fast-growing data centre industry, the US digital giant has acquired another large property from a well-known agri-business family next to an electricity connection for its power-hungry business.

Gerard Feehily was the accountant of businessman and Apple data centre objector Brian McDonagh. He is now being sued in the fallout of a failed €1.5 million Wicklow land deal.

He took on tech giant Apple and lost. Now businessman Brian McDonagh is facing renewed pressure in relation to a controversial land deal.