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Amazon has bought a 240,000 sq ft warehouse in Dublin and will build a data centre there. According to trade reports, Amazon will use the site to house the European leg of its EC2 cloud computing services. Amazon likes Ireland and Ireland must love Amazon: the company's cloud hosting business now accounts for more than a …

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  1. Paddy Fagan
    Boffin

    The love us because of the sh*tty weather, just like MS

    To quote MS:

    Ninety-five percent of the time the temperature outdoors happens to be the temperature that computer servers happen to love, so we only have to turn on the heat or the air conditioning 5 percent of the time

    Low corporate taxes help, of course - anyway we need the money to pay back the EU, IMF, UK gov, etc......

    Paddy

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Boffin

    Only one question re corporations and Ireland

    How much subsidy is involved?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Unhappy

      How much subsidy is involved?

      Oooo about €95billion and rising....

      http://www.financedublin.com/debtclock.php

    2. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      re: Only one question re corporations and Ireland →

      Tax efficiencies, Google style, come to mind - usually routing from Ireland through Netherlands and then onto other efficient locations following that...

  3. The Fuzzy Wotnot
    Pint

    Jeez!

    Who took the photo of the building on their 3 year old Nokia camera phone? Is that the best that was available?

  4. roomaroo
    Boffin

    How big?

    240000 sq ft? I make that 1.073 microWales.

  5. Tezfair
    Coat

    waste of space

    Virtualize it and you can fit it on one server running under the stairs in my grans house.

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