The construction of a new Facebook data centre in the town of Clonee, Co. Meath, will begin in the immediate future.
The project, which is estimated to have a cost of around €200m, will create about 10,000 construction jobs in the area, and 150 permanent positions once the facility is up and running by 2018.
The new building will be powered by renewable energy, just like the company’s other European data centre at Luleå, Sweden, which opened in 2013.
The centre will handle data generated by more than a billion people who use the social network worldwide.