The data hosting industry continues to invest over €1 billion per annum in developing facilities in Ireland. The growth trend of incumbent operators continues, and more new digital hosting companies have entered the Irish market in 2018. Download the 2018 Q2 Update Report to Learn More: Data centres in Ireland employed 5,700 people in full time roles between construction and operational roles and generated €1.6 billion direct and €2.6 billion in indirect economic benefits to Ireland since 2010 €1 billion of new data centre investments were announced from CyrusOne, Crag Digital, Equinix and others Eight new buildings are in construction totalling 138 MW, and a further twelve have approved planning permission for 305 MW. New planning applications were submitted for ten new data halls The average size of buildings has increased over the years, moving from 5-10 MW in the 2000s up to 15-20 MW+ today There is now estimated to be 483 MW of data centre capacity in operation in Ireland There are 46 operational data centre facilities of various types of operating in Ireland in 2018