The European Commission plans to triple EU data center capacity from roughly 12 GW to more than 27 GW within five to seven years, requiring an estimated €200 billion in mostly private investment, thro…
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez announced that his government launched a public consultation in August on a new regulatory framework for data centers, citing projections that computing-power elec…
Cortee launched a documentation tool that uses a diffusion model to apply edits to live documentation pages in under one second, with typical edit latency of around 0.7 seconds in internal tests. The …
C1 announced that new customers requiring their C1 tenant data held in the EU can now be provisioned on its EU instance, which runs in AWS Frankfurt with Ireland as the disaster-recovery region. The i…
The UK Labour government rejected Green Party leader Zack Polanski's August 27 call for a temporary moratorium on large AI data centre approvals in England, calling such a pause a 'disaster for the ec…
Data centers are reversing power flows on the U.S. grid and causing sudden demand drops, breaking two century-old planning rules, according to a grid meeting and NERC warnings. On July 22, more than 3…
The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) published an analysis concluding that code generated by large language models (LLMs) may lack copyright protection, which could prevent it from being license…
AI labs are buying thousands of secondhand books from the UK and Ireland to scan and create proprietary datasets of human-authored text, avoiding the synthetic data loop that leads to model collapse. …
OpenAI has designated Dublin as its official European Union headquarters and plans to add 250 jobs, with a target of creating up to 400 jobs over three years and investing roughly 105 million euros in…
The Guardian has called on UK residents living near AI data centres to share their experiences, as the number of large facilities reaches around 450 nationwide. Concerns include land use, pollution, n…
Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland to expand production output for AI and high-performance computing, upgrading existing fabrication facili…
Intel's five billion-euro investment in its Co Kildare campus is not an 'outlier' in the tech industry, Taoiseach Micheál Martin said at the chip maker's Leixlip facility. The investment, driven by gl…
Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland to expand manufacturing capacity for AI and high-performance computing chips, including Intel Xeon 6 and next-ge…
Intel announced a €5 billion ($5.7 billion) capital investment at its Leixlip campus in Ireland to expand manufacturing capacity for AI and high-performance computing chips, including Intel Xeon 6 and…
In 2015, residents of Athenry, Ireland, protested Apple's plan to build a $1 billion data center, raising environmental and community concerns that foreshadowed today's global conflicts over AI-driven…
A 2015 Apple data center project in Athenry, Ireland, was abandoned in 2018 after years of legal battles with local residents over noise, light pollution, and environmental concerns, foreshadowing a w…
A new analysis of 3,519 AI-related job postings across eight EU countries reveals that for every professional hired to govern AI, nearly seven are hired to build it, with Sweden showing the widest gap…
Dunnhumby research published on July 9, 2026 found AI-assisted grocery shopping adoption varies sharply by market, with Ireland near twice the European average. The report shows 39% of UK respondents …
AI data centers are consuming vast amounts of freshwater, with a single hyperscale facility using up to 5 million gallons daily. Two-thirds of new data centers are in water-stressed regions, creating …
AI researcher Sasha Luccioni argues that data centers, often vilified as environmental villains, can be made sustainable through smarter design, local energy solutions, and regulatory mandates. She hi…