Eoin Ó Broin
Question:398. Deputy Eoin Ó Broin asked the Minister for Enterprise, Tourism and Employment the status of the data centre cost benefit report he commissioned. [73597/25]
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My Department has engaged independent consultants to undertake research on the economic value of data centres in Ireland.
This work is not a cost benefit analysis. Rather, it’s primary focus is to map out the data centre landscape in Ireland and to estimate the economic value of data centres across several strands. These strands include: the economic value associated with the construction and operation of data centres; the economic value associated with activities across sectors in Ireland that are enabled by data centres; and the economic value of data centres as it relates to attraction and retention of foreign direct investment.
The research is also considering wider economic benefits as well as other impacts associated with data centres.
Finally, the potential economic impacts to Ireland if we do not continue to develop our data centre landscape further beyond 2030 are assessed and the challenges and opportunities to any further development are presented.
The study output will provide an important evidence base for informing ongoing data centre policy discussions and the conclusion of the work is expected in Q1 2026.