TikTok planning to house new €420m data centre in Clondalkin

SOCIAL media giant TikTok is planning to house its new €420m data centre in Clondalkin, reports Aideen O’Flaherty.

As reported in The Sunday Business Post, the social media company has chosen the Echelon data centre campus, located beside the M50 and the Grand Canal, for the location of their new data centre.

Echelon Data Centres was founded by Aldgate Developments director Niall Molloy in the second half of 2018.

The 35-acre data centre campus in Clondalkin Industrial Estate is expected to be fully operational by the end of this year.

TikTok already has a strong presence in Dublin, with their ‘Trust and Safety Hub’ located in the capital. The social media company also plans to move their European privacy operations to Ireland.

The Chinese video sharing app has more than 100 million users in Europe alone.