KENNY WELCOMES ANNOUNCEMENT OF €98 MILLION MICROSOFT EXPANSION

Posted on February 23, 2012 1:55 PM   |   Permanent Link   

Dublin North East Labour T.D., Sean Kenny today warmly welcomed the announcement by Microsoft that it is investing an additional €98 million to expand its data centre in Dublin.

"Ireland has been a leading location for ICT investments over the last decade and I am delighted to see a long standing economic partner like Microsoft, with such a significant global presence, continue to recognise Ireland's talent and track-record as a country worth investing in. Investments like this, by a company of Microsoft's calibre, reinforce our growing reputation as a leading world-wide location in cloud computing.

"This investment builds on the original €377 million investment Microsoft has already made in the Dublin data centre, which has been operational since July 2009, providing computing capacity to customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. This data centre is an essential part of where Microsoft is going as a company. As its customers embrace Microsoft cloud services such as Office 365, Windows Live, Xbox Live, Bing and the Windows Azure platform, Microsoft is including Dublin as one of Microsoft's regional cloud infrastructure centres to meet its needs as it provides these services.

"This significant announcement from Microsoft shows that Ireland is continuing to regain its international reputation for investment and business. Now central to the Government Action Plan on Jobs the strategy to become the country of choice for data centres is coming to fruition. Through the Action Plan on Jobs the Government will continue to make the necessary changes to make Ireland more attractive to companies such as Microsoft."