Or Apple was planning on using all that saved tax money that just evaporated because of the EU, so they changed the design so that it would get rejected. In the process Ireland got trashed. Usually you just need to follow the money.
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Apple Ditches Plans for $1 Billion Irish Data Center, Citing Approval Delays
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Or Apple was planning on using all that saved tax money that just evaporated because of the EU, so they changed the design so that it would get rejected. In the process Ireland got trashed. Usually you just need to follow the money.
Well considering the plentiful other sites that aren’t forests, I guess the people prefer the wildlife over a huge concrete ugly building. And as said above, plenty of other sites exist.
Let's be honest - are you REALLY going to let a Google AI do your phone calls for you??
{dim the lights... cue worker at office}
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"Hey Google - call my wife and ask her how was your day and what's for dinner?"
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The comedy possibilities are infinite!
Way to slam working people and farmers. Nice elitism you have there.
Absolutely correct, and you’re the only person in 3 pages of comments that actually bothered to learn what’s been going on. It’s been one apparently bored and vindictive American enviro-parasite and his lawyer, ringleading any possible legal shenanigans to drag out the process.
As far as eco nuts go, he even argued in favored of logging over not-logging to block Apple building sheds with some servers in relative privacy. The entire town was counting on this business, anyone actually familiar with the area knows there’s plenty of space.
Let’s hope this guy enjoys what he’s earned. He’ll definitely never eat another meal out free of spit, or worse. I think the community will eventually run him out or he’ll get bored and go cause misery somewhere else.
If the project involved clearing living trees, then I'm glad to hear that it's not going forward. There's plenty of tree-less plots that could used. Trees should NEVER be cleared to make way for big industry. Our world needs them too much.
As a local I too would be disappointed in this outcome (the development being halted) but Daly's concerns do seem valid and by the sounds of it the replacement data centre may be a better solution from an environmental standpoint.
A project like this would be a big benefit to any small community and I really have to question anyone who says otherwise. Hopefully Ireland can get their renewable energy plan better sorted going forward. I'm always happy to see infrastructure like this in a suitably cool climate rather than air conditioned sites in the southwestern US.
I love how you attack people for making assumptions about why this happened to Apple and then you comment with your own assumptions about why this happened.
“There is no disputing that Apple’s decision is very disappointing, particularly for Athenry and the west of Ireland,” said Heather Humphreys, Ireland’s minister for business and enterprise. “These delays have, if nothing else, underlined our need to make the state’s planning and legal processes more efficient.”
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The Irish government is in the process of amending planning laws to include data centres as strategic infrastructure, allowing such projects to get through the planning process much more quickly.
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"amending planning laws to include data centres as strategic infrastructure" - what an absolute piece of total BS and an incredible abuse of power.
In other words, the state will now be the sole decision on what's best for it's peeps - to hell with local consultation - sleep tight all!
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The Irish government is in the process of amending planning laws to include data centres as strategic infrastructure, allowing such projects to get through the planning process much more quickly.
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"amending planning laws to include data centres as strategic infrastructure" - what an absolute piece of total BS and an incredible abuse of power.
In other words, the state will now be the sole decision on what's best for it's peeps - to hell with local consultation - sleep tight all!
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The Irish government is in the process of amending planning laws to include data centres as strategic infrastructure, allowing such projects to get through the planning process much more quickly.
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A little late to the game Ireland... and tax deals that do not abide in synch with EU tax laws, make an environment of risk for businesses and enterprises .
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A little late to the game Ireland... and tax deals that do not abide in synch with EU tax laws, make an environment of risk for businesses and enterprises .
If you follow the links in the MR article back to the source, you'll see that the "proximity to nuclear power plants" criteria was Apple's own. Apple used this internal Apple-only rule to justify building on the west coast (claiming all the areas in Ireland designated by the government for data centers were too close to nuclear plants). Than the protesters identified a decommissioned plant in Wales that violated Apple's own stated rules.
13 billion euros, is hardly what one might call "minimizing" tax liabilities. More like utilizing other countries as a loophole for gaining maximum profit which they weren't intending on sharing with the countries they were utilizing to obtain the ill-gotten gains. Put that in your pipe and smoke on it...
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What's good for the goose...thumbs up and marry it if you like it so much, besides, it sounds like more is happening to countries like Ireland in this article than your precioussssss Apple. The West needs to be stopped from its exploitive nature of raping the rest of the civilized world for profit and it all starts with companies like Cr-Apple who claim to be natures greatest Ally, then does everything it can to cut corners and make sure all of its products end up in a recycle bin or trash heap after a few years of use. It can start with user serviceable batteries..
Reading the comments was good comedy. Thank you!
A decision like this, to pullback at late stage after the fat lady sung, was never made lightly, and only after careful benefit--loss analysis. We do not have the facts -- and never will unless someone "on the know" spills the beans.
Bean-counters at today's Apple now rule.
[Maybe they always did, and we were blinded by Steve's showmanship.]
Those that think that Apple is a white-knight enterprise, driven by community welfare and guided by community values, need to come back to Earth from the Galaxy they are living on.
As someone said above, accurately, "just follow the money."
A decision like this, to pullback at late stage after the fat lady sung, was never made lightly, and only after careful benefit--loss analysis. We do not have the facts -- and never will unless someone "on the know" spills the beans.
Bean-counters at today's Apple now rule.
[Maybe they always did, and we were blinded by Steve's showmanship.]
Those that think that Apple is a white-knight enterprise, driven by community welfare and guided by community values, need to come back to Earth from the Galaxy they are living on.
As someone said above, accurately, "just follow the money."
Totally made up. Except by sheer coincidence, the "follow the money" is correct, but not the way you think.
Here's the reality: There were FOUR people opposing the project, dragging it through the courts as long as possible. 99% of the people living there would have welcomed the project. Two of the four own an investment company that bought 22 million Euros worth of land that they were willing to sell to Apple at a "bargain" price if they moved the project elsewhere.