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DICE (Data Centres Investment Conference & Expo) is Bisnow's dedicated conference series for the data centre industry. Each event convenes the developers, investors, operators and infrastructure providers actively shaping data centre growth in that market, with programming built around the deals, challenges and opportunities specific to the region or topic. View all upcoming DICE events here!
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Speakers and Panels
Clearing the Bar: Approval, Design and Delivery in Ireland's Next Round of Data Centres
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Charlie Etheridge
Head of Investment
Echelon Data Centres
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Peter Browne
Head of Strategy
Suir Engineering
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Tommy Cooke
Regional Director
Buildots
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John Dallas
Partner
A&L Goodbody
Beyond the Grid: Where Ireland's Constrained Capacity Actually Goes
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Tania Tsoneva
Head of Infrastructure Research
CBRE Investment Management
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Kelly Phillips
Chief Growth Officer
MOY Group
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Michael Sadler
Partner
Browne Jacobson
Why You Can't Miss This Data Centres Event
What You’ll Learn
How the CRU connection policy is determining which projects can move forward, including how the active legal challenge is affecting operator and lender decision-making
What the 80% renewable matching requirement and dispatchable generation rules mean for underwriting, site selection and project timelines
Where viable capacity still exists across Ireland and the realistic outlook for Dublin infill versus regional and energy-park models
How major projects like DB7x, DUB1 and DUB20 are being financed, phased and delivered under current constraints
What lenders and investors are prioritizing when evaluating Irish data centre deals in 2026
How the shift from 400V AC to 800V DC and rack densities climbing toward 1MW are forcing fundamental design decisions on projects breaking ground today
How procurement and contracting structures are evolving, including where civil, structural and MEP scopes are being separated and what that means for risk and delivery
The biggest execution risks facing projects today including equipment lead times, permitting coordination, energisation sequencing and customer commitment timing
Why This Matters
Ireland remains one of Europe’s most important data centre markets, but the rules for getting projects approved and delivered have fundamentally changed. Data centres now account for roughly 23% of Ireland’s metered electricity consumption, according to the Central Statistics Office Ireland, and that level of demand has forced a shift from broad growth to selective, infrastructure-led development.
Recent policy changes from the Commission for Regulation of Utilities require new data centre projects to align with renewable generation, provide system support and pass more granular location-based assessments. At the same time, the government’s Large Energy Users Action Plan signals that opportunities in greater Dublin are likely to be limited in the near term, pushing developers toward new geographic and energy strategies.
In response, the market is evolving quickly. Projects like Equinix’s DB7x are maximizing existing power allocations within Dublin, while Vantage’s DUB1 campus incorporates large-scale onsite generation. Echelon’s DUB20 in Arklow is advancing a green energy park model tied to offshore wind, representing a new framework for delivering capacity in Ireland. These changes represent a shift in how projects are conceived, financed and executed.
This event is designed for the stakeholders navigating that shift in real time, including hyperscale and colocation operators, developers, energy providers, contractors, lenders and policymakers. The decisions being made now, from how projects are structured and contracted to how power is delivered and cooled at scale, will define which facilities are still competitive when they open and which are already behind. Understanding both sides of that equation, what it takes to get approved and what it takes to build something that lasts, is no longer optional for anyone active in the Irish market.
Related Articles And Developments
Echelon's Dub20 To Become First Government-Recognised Green Energy Park
New Regulation Brings Hope Dublin Data Centre Market Can Wake From Its Slumber
Ireland Remains Echelon's Prime Expansion Target After €1.7B Morgan Stanley Funding
Regulator Opens Up Possible Data Centre Pathway Amid Fears Dublin Has Been Left Behind
Decision on New Electricity Connection Policy for Data Centres
Venue
Hotel Riu Plaza The Gresham Dublin
23 O'Connell Street Upper, North City
Dublin, D01 C3W7, Ireland
Function Rooms: Trinity and O'Connell Suite
Level: Lower Ground Floor
Agenda
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8:00 AM
8:55 AM
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Breakfast, Registration & Networking
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8:55 AM
9:00 AM
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Welcome From Bisnow!
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9:00 AM
10:00 AM
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Clearing the Bar: Approval, Design and Delivery in Ireland's Next Round of Data Centres
New Irish policy has raised the bar on what gets approved, and increasingly that bar is written in engineering terms rather than paperwork. Examine how operators, developers and investors are threading location, renewable matching and system support requirements through to procurement structure, contracting models and power delivery architecture, where design decisions on rack density and the shift from 400V AC to 800V DC now shape the approval case as much as the construction timeline. |
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10:00 AM
10:15 AM
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Networking Break
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10:15 AM
11:15 AM
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Beyond the Grid: Where Ireland's Constrained Capacity Actually Goes
Ireland's pipeline may be stalling but demand for its digital infrastructure isn't going anywhere. Examine how CRU connection policy and the Large Energy Users Action Plan are pushing that demand onto European interconnection routes and regional facilities, what it means for latency-sensitive versus latency-tolerant workloads, and how Irish developers, contractors and advisors are applying the procurement and delivery lessons learned at home to projects built elsewhere. |
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11:15 AM
11:30 AM
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More Networking!
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