{"id":286984,"date":"2026-02-08T08:22:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:22:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286984\/"},"modified":"2026-02-08T08:22:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-08T08:22:12","slug":"ireland-still-risks-losing-up-to-e4bn-in-data-centre-investment-despite-lifting-of-moratorium-says-top-industry-player","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/286984\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ireland still risks losing up to \u20ac4bn in data centre investment despite lifting of moratorium,\u2019 says top industry player"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\u2018It remains very hard. Big developers haven\u2019t stopped looking at Ireland as closed for business,\u2019 according to construction consultant Anthony McDermott\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anthony McDermott of Mitchell McDermott consultants says Ireland risks losing up to \u20ac4bn of investment. Photo: Stock image\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/8bc361a3-7803-4b13-9da4-eb3d9150cb61.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Anthony McDermott of Mitchell McDermott consultants says Ireland risks losing up to \u20ac4bn of investment. Photo: Stock image\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Ireland risks losing up to \u20ac4bn of investment in data centres that have already cleared the planning system despite a lifting of the moratorium on the sector, according to an industry expert.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With the power problem still not resolved, the country now risks losing out on a whole new generation of AI-focused data centres that are increasingly at the heart of the tech sector, said Anthony McDermott of construction consultancy Mitchell McDermott, a major player in the sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u2018It remains very hard. Big developers haven\u2019t stopped looking at Ireland as closed for business,\u2019 according to construction&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2334,6353,61,60,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-286984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","9":"tag-fearghal-oconnor","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}