Digital Realty Clonshaugh (DUB11 and DUB12)
operational CampusOperated by Digital Realty
A 70 million euro Digital Realty facility at Clonshaugh comprising the DUB11 and DUB12 buildings, opened in March 2020.
Land use jurisdiction: Dublin City Council
Measurements on record
No disclosed measurements on record yet.
Permitting path
No approvals on record yet for any of the 11 path steps.
Ireland's path runs grid-first: under the CRU's Large Energy Users Connection Policy (CRU/25/236, December 2025, replacing the 2021 data centre connection direction), a new connection offer requires dispatchable generation or storage matched to the facility's import capacity and a commitment to source at least 80 percent of annual demand from new Irish renewable generation within six years of energisation. Planning permission sits with the local authority in the first instance (the 2018 provision routing large data centres directly to the national planning body is not yet commenced), with appeals to An Coimisiun Pleanala, and environmental impact assessment where screening requires it. Uisce Eireann water and wastewater connections, building control certificates, and an EPA industrial emissions licence for standby fleets over 50 MW thermal complete the path.
| Date | Step | Authority | Instrument | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grid connection application | not yet requested | |||
| Connection offer and agreement | not yet requested | |||
| Dispatchable generation or storage matched to import capacity applies for new connection applications under the 2025 policy |
not yet requested | |||
| Renewables matching commitment (80 percent in six years) applies for new connection applications under the 2025 policy |
not yet requested | |||
| Strategic infrastructure pre-application consultation applies where an associated Seventh Schedule class, such as large scale onsite generation, routes the application to An Coimisiun Pleanala; the data centre specific route is not yet commenced |
not yet requested | |||
| Environmental impact assessment applies where screening determines significant effects are likely |
Dublin City Council | not yet requested | ||
| Planning permission | Dublin City Council | not yet requested | ||
| Uisce Eireann wastewater connection | not yet requested | |||
| Uisce Eireann water connection agreement | not yet requested | |||
| Building control (commencement notice; fire safety and disability access certificates) | Dublin City Council | not yet requested | ||
| EPA industrial emissions licence applies where standby generation crosses licensing thresholds |
not yet requested |
Steps without a record are shown as not yet requested or not on record: absence of a record here is a records gap, not a finding about the facility. An authority shown for an empty step is the body that would issue it.
About this path and the law behind each step: law.ungovr.org/compute/ie
Location and sources
Clonshaugh, Dublin City Council, Ireland
Sources: PR Newswire: Digital Realty opens new Dublin data centre · DataCenterDynamics: Interxion pauses plans for 300 million dollar expansion in Dublin
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