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Microsoft is shelling out $500m on a new European data centre in Ireland to support its growing online business. There will be tens of thousands of servers pumping out web-based apps to internet fanciers all over the world, the company says.
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But it only needs to hire between 15 and 20 staff to run thebehemoth's first Windows Live data centre not on US soil, because muchof the system will be automated. Despite the small number of jobs generated by the new power-chugging50,000 sq ft site, which will be located in a biz park just outsideDublin, Prime Minister Bertie Ahern leapt in to applaud Microsoft'sdecision to plonk the building on Irish land.
He gushed that it was "a further example of Ireland being to theforefront when it comes to the cutting edge of technology... The Irishgovernment recognises the importance of being a competitive,innovation-driven, knowledge economy," according to Associated Press. Microsoft, which already has some 1,200 staff at a separate officein Ireland, said work would begin later this month and it expects thecentre to open for business by 2009.