Ireland has been a data center hub for decades - especially thanks to the IDA successfully wooing Microsoft back in 2007 [0], and it helped played a role in helping Ireland partially recover from the AIB and housing collapse back in 2008 and become the tech hub it is today. Heck, it was the corneestone of the IDA's tech FDI policy back then [1].

Heck, Google itself only expanded in Ireland back in the 2000s in large part because they worked on acquiring Colt to build their European CoLo in Ireland, and data centers now represent around 18% of Ireland's total GVA [2].

[0] - https://www.datacenterknowledge.com/hyperscalers/microsoft-p...

[1] - https://www.siliconrepublic.com/science/ireland-has-the-pote...

[2] - https://www.iiea.com/blog/data-centres-in-ireland-the-state-...