Amazon buys Dublin building as future data center

DataCenterDynamics reports on amazon.com’s latest data center move.

Amazon buys Dublin site for data center

Two more data centers under development in the area

Published 9th February, 2011 by Yevgeniy Sverdlik

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Online retailer and provider of public-cloud servicesAmazon bought a large property in Dublin, Ireland, with plans to turn it into a data center, Independent.ie reported.
The 240,000-sq-ft building is a former storage facility of the supermarket chain Tesco, which moved out more than two years ago. The property, sitting on a 13-acre site had been on the market ever since its last occupant left.

It looks like Amazon.com has a strategy to buy/lease buildings and convert rather than build.

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DataCenterKnowledge reports on Amazon.com leasing 125,000 sq ft of office/warehouse space and converting it to data center space.

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Amazon’s expanding cloud computing operation apparently needs room to grow. The commercial real estate news site Globe Street reports that Amazon has leased a building in northern Virginia that will be used to expand its data center operations.