23/02/2012

Microsoft Announce Dublin Expansion

Microsoft has announced it will create over 450 jobs in a $130m investment to expand its data centre in west Dublin.

400 construction jobs and over another 50 positions are expected to be created.

The centre will be located on the firm's campus at Grange Castle in west Dublin.

It is part of the government strategy to make Ireland a centre for cloud computing.

(CD)

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