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• Published date: 15 April 2024
• Publication title: Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland)

The tech giants have significant concerns over Ireland’s ability to facilitate future data centre growth amid ongoing restrictions on connection requests from big business

In a recent document seen by the newspaper, industry group Cloud Infrastructure Ireland, which represents the three companies, took issue with several aspects of a proposed new policy that will decide how they can connect data centres to the grid.

The group said proposals put forward by the Commission for Regulation of Utilities to restrict data centres would “send a signal to the market that a portion of Ireland is closed for new investment and business growth”.

Debt warehousing Companies in the Revenue’s debt warehousing scheme will be forced to settle their pandemic liabilities in full unless they clear other outstanding tax business before May 1st, reports the Sunday Times.

Updated Revenue guidelines for setting up phased payments to clear the debts by the deadline state that applications will be rejected if there are outstanding tax bills, unpaid...