Apple given green light to build new data center worth $1billion in Ireland’s woodland

‘After months of delays and appeals, Irish authorities have given tech giant Apple permission to begin building its new one billion dollar data center that will occupy an area of some 30 football fields in a woodland in western Ireland.
“The Board decided to grant permission for the proposed development,” the An Bórd Pleanála, the body that regulates planning and development in Ireland, ruled.
The construction plan was first announced in early 2015 and was approved by the Galway County Council, but that approval prompted a number of complaints to be directed from locals and environmentalists to the planning authority.’
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