Author: David McAuley, R&D programme manager, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland Ireland currently houses 135MW of data centres. This accounts for about 3% of national electricity demand and is growing rapidly. The ICT industry worldwide is no stranger to the connection between energy and sustainability, and actively seeks to include renewable supply and efficiency in its portfolio of solutions. So, how can Ireland leverage its proven advantages in these areas to become the ...

Ireland may sit on the geographic edge of the EU, but when it comes to ICT, the country is at the very heart of Europe's digital industry. The country certainly benefits from the presence of the big ICT names. Older corporations like Microsoft and HP, as well as Google and newer players such as Facebook and Twitter, have all established their EMEA operations in Ireland, attracted by the country's low corporation taxes and an educated workforce with English as a mother tongue. But the ...

Working without time or resource constraints could be portrayed as the perfect creative environment, but can ‘less’ sometimes lead to ‘more’ – and when might that be the case? In this article, we examine the positive impact of time constraints on new product development (NPD), drawing on our research in a medical devices company. Early academic literature suggested that control hindered creativity, as it was seen as reducing freedom. However, attention has more recently turned to the ...

The Corrib gas project is one of the most significant engineering projects ever undertaken in Ireland. It is now in its final phase of construction, which involves laying the onshore pipeline from the landfall site at Glengad to the Bellanaboy Bridge Gas Terminal. The onshore pipeline is 8.3km long and 4.9km of this will be installed in a tunnel, most of which will run under Sruwaddacon Bay, in north-west Mayo. When completed, the tunnel will be the longest tunnel in Ireland and the ...