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Apple Scraps Plan For $1 Billion Data Center In Ireland

posted by Fnord666 on Friday May 11 2018, @06:35PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-apple-for-you dept.

Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:

Three years of planning delays soured Apple on the plan.  

Apple is giving up on plans to build a data center in Ireland after waiting three years for final approval that never came, according to Reuters.

The center, which was expected to cost 850 million euros ($1 billion), was announced in 2015 and was supposed to be built in the town of Athenry on Ireland's west coast. Apple chose the location because of its proximity to renewable energy sources, something the company takes very seriously. In April, Apple announced that 100 percent of its facilities run on clean energy.

Planning appeals by two people caused the delays, although Ireland's High Court ruled in October that the data center could go ahead. The individuals then took their case to the country's Supreme Court, but Apple decided to call time on the project ahead of the hearing, which was set for Thursday.

"Despite our best efforts, delays in the approval process have forced us to make other plans and we will not be able to move forward with the data center," Apple said in a statement to Reuters.

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by zocalo on Friday May 11 2018, @07:19PM (1 child)

    by zocalo (302) on Friday May 11 2018, @07:19PM (#678535)
    I'm skeptical of the delays being the real reason too, but I don't think it's anything to do with Ireland being in the EU for tax reasons either. From TFS:

    A similar Apple center announced at the same time in Denmark was due to begin operations last year and Apple announced in July that it would build its second EU data center there.

    If Apple wanted additional capacity for EU-based users without the EU's tax legislation (they can't really get away with privacy since GDPR applies anywhere) there are several suitable countries on the EU's periphery that have decent enough levels of bandwidth to choose from, yet they're apparently perfectly OK with Denmark that joined the EU at the same time Ireland and the UK did in 1973. Or maybe the Danish are just better at finding tax loopholes than the Irish are...

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Friday May 11 2018, @08:40PM

    by frojack (1554) on Friday May 11 2018, @08:40PM (#678562) Journal

    Or maybe Denmark has some subtle social means of keeping TWO Malcontents from killing off several hundred jobs.

    I would not have thought the Irish were timid in this area, and wouldn't give even odds on Sinead Fitzpatrick and Allan Daly surviving a month in that town.

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