TIMELINE
APPLE IN THE
FIELDS OF ATHENRY After half a decade of court cases, marches protesting the project, marches in support of the project, and finally abandoning the project for more than two years, Apple has announced that it still intends to build a $1bn data centre campus in Galway, Ireland, with the potential for another five year wait before construction even begins.
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Planning Application Filed
Planning Approved
Following an announcement in February of 2015 that it would invest €1.7bn into two hyperscale data centre campuses in Europe, Apple’s planning application for its data centre in Galway is filed.
Plans for the 20 MW (still considered a sizable facility back in 2015), 24,000 sqm data centre on a forested site in Derrydonnell, Athenry, are approved. Apple hints at plans to build more data centres on the site in future.
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