Digital Realty Trust, a leading global provider of data centre solutions, announced that it has acquired a 10-acre development site in Dublin, Ireland.

The property is located in Profile Park, approximately 15 miles southwest of Dublin International Airport. The site is capable of supporting the phased development of approximately 11.5 megawatts of data centre space across four buildings, totalling approximately 193,000 square feet of space.

"Dublin remains an important data centre market for both local and multinational corporations, including large technology and Internet companies as well as IT service providers," said Michael F. Foust, Chief Executive Officer of Digital Realty. "Using our phased development approach, this site will enable us to support our customers' expanding data centre needs by bringing data centre space online efficiently in terms of both time and cost."

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"Dublin has an ideal climate for deploying an indirect air optimisation design. This significantly improves a data centre's energy efficiency by lowering its PUE (power utilisation efficiency) and therefore its total cost of occupancy. We expect to achieve PUEs of around 1.15 in our Profile Park facility, a substantial reduction from the electrical consumption typically required for cooling a data centre," added Adam Levine, Vice President, Sales for Digital Realty. "The acquisition of this site enables us to provide customers with both large and smaller requirements through a variety of flexible data centre solutions to meet their needs. Our Turn-Key Datacentres have a six-year record of 99.999% uptime. For our customers, this means they can focus on their operations while we maintain and operate the supporting power and cooling systems for maximum resiliency."

Welcoming the announcement IDA Ireland CEO, Barry O'Leary said: "Digital Realty's proposal to provide a substantial new data centre footprint in Dublin will be a great addition to the existing infrastructure here and strongly enhances Ireland's attractiveness as a leading location for international services activity. The new site will deploy the latest eco-friendly technology, which when complemented with Irish weather conditions, will result in one of the most energy efficient facilities in the world. IDA Ireland warmly welcomes Digital Realty's investment and looks forward to working closely with the company in the future."

(CD/GK)