Apple ruled out building massive data centre in Kildare due to potential risks of welsh nuclear plants

The massive Apple data centre that is coming to Ireland will definitely not be in the east of the country due to the potential risks of nuclear power plants in Wales.

A site in Oberstown near Naas was considered as a viable option for the tech giants, but the Sunday Times have today reported that all proposed sites on the eastern side of the country were ruled out because they were within a 200 mile proximity of nuclear power plants in Wales. Sites cannot be within 20 miles of fuel storage facilities or within 50 miles of petrochemical storage facilities either, meaning potential sites in Cork were also ruled out.

That left a large site in Athenry as one of the only viable options in the country, and Apple are now embattled in a planning row over the construction of the €850 million site.

Objections have been made by a number of parties, one of which comes from a woman with an address in Wicklow who says that there is a potential site located in Newtownmountkennedy that would be appropriate for the data centre.