Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 9 November 2022

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation

Current Issues Affecting Trade in Ireland: Enterprise Ireland

Mr. Leo Clancy:

In the Enterprise Ireland-funded companies, it would be predominantly work on the construction and supply to data centres rather than their operation. There are some Irish-owned companies that operate data centres. They are very small in number, as we mentioned earlier. The bigger story is the number of Irish companies that depend on data centres as a source of work for themselves. It is predominantly construction. Over the past 20 years, because the first multinational data centres were established in Ireland, Irish construction and supply companies had the unique opportunity to build their businesses on the work in that sector. We estimate that nearly 10% of our total base of exports at this point is from companies that export to data centre clients in other parts of Europe and the rest of the world.

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