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SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

MEETING OF SOUTH DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL

Monday, July 08, 2024

QUESTION NO. 36

QUESTION: Councillor J. Spear

To ask the Chief Executive for a report on Date Centres operating in SDCC administrative area. Report to include how many are currently operating and how many are in the planning process?

REPLY:

The number of data centres operating in SDCC administrative area is 40, the data used for this figure comes from findings in June 2023 available from Bitpower Energy Solutions.  Since the adoption of the current County Development Plan and associated policy, the Planning Authority has refused three data centres all of which have been appealed to An Bord Pleanala and are awaiting decision.  A further data centre, granted by the Planning Authority under the 2016 Development Plan, has since been refused by An Bord Pleanala under the current Development Plan.  Two data centres have been granted under the current plan, one for an extension of permission and the other for change of use from a warehouse to a data repository facility, this latter has been appealed to An Bord Pleanala.