Ireland AI Campus is a data center operated by Meta in IE. It carries a reported power capacity of 400.0 MW and is currently under construction. It sits in the Dublin data-center market on the EirGrid grid, which DC Hub's Data Center Power Index currently rates AVOID, with an estimated 100.8-month time-to-power. Operators should weigh interconnection risk here — the market screens constrained on grid headroom and time-to-power.
Data Center Power Index verdict for Dublin — the market this facility sits in.
Full DCPI breakdown →DC Hub analyst read on Dublin — the market this facility sits in (full deep-dive →).
Dublin's data center market is mature and operationally constrained, with 179 tracked facilities delivering 2,404 MW across a competitive, consolidated operator base. Meta leads with 25 facilities, followed by Microsoft 16, Digital Realty 13, Unknown 12, and Equinix 11. The market has attracted enough institutional capital to establish these players, but recent M&A activity is absent from tracked records, signaling a pause in consolidation despite ongoing regional interest in Irish infrastructure. The DCPI verdict of AVOID is definitive for acquisition-focused capital. An excess-power score of 24/100 coupled with a constraint rating of 78/100 indicates severe operational headroom limitations. This pairing leaves little room for incremental capacity deployment or demand absorption; buyers entering now face immediate grid and infrastructure friction, making near-term operational leverage…
Published DC Hub data for this location.
DC Hub tracks 35 operating generating units totalling 3,326 MW within about 50 km of IE. Generation mix shapes both carbon profile and interconnection options for a site at this location.
Source: Global Energy Monitor unit inventory, operating units only. Counts are units, not plants.
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