Enterprise Server Parts + ITAD Services to Ireland — Dublin, Cork, Limerick

Dublin DC Capital of Europe — 48,000+ Racks, 1 GW+ Pipeline

Dublin is the largest data center market in Europe by installed footprint and by concentration. As of 2025, Dublin commands 89.29% of Ireland’s installed DC capacity. The country’s total existing rack count crossed 48,000 in 2025 and is projected to expand toward 180,000 with the upcoming pipeline on full build. Upcoming IT power capacity exceeds 1 GW — roughly triple the current availability. This is not a market you enter with new-gear catalogs; the hyperscale and tier-1 colocation operators already run tight OEM-direct supply relationships with Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Supermicro and ODM-direct builds.

The Dublin cluster concentrates around four zones: Grange Castle (Meta, Microsoft, Google), Profile Park (Digital Realty, Google, Microsoft), Citywest (Equinix, Interxion), and Clondalkin (AWS, Amazon Data Services Ireland). EirGrid — the national transmission operator — has imposed grid-connection constraints that reshape where new DC capacity can land, pushing some expansion toward Athenry, Ennis and regional sites. The power constraint is the single biggest lever in the Irish DC market today.

Big-Tech EMEA HQs — Google, Meta, Microsoft, AWS

Ireland’s 12.5% corporate tax rate (15% under the OECD Pillar Two top-up) anchored the EMEA HQ decisions of Google, Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Apple, Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dell EMC, Intel, Oracle and dozens of other tier-1 tech firms. Dublin and surrounding Leinster host the back-office, support, sales and regional-leadership functions for these hyperscalers — and the production compute that serves EU, Middle East and Africa end users. Intel’s Leixlip Fab 34 is a €17 billion EUV-node semiconductor plant producing advanced logic. Dell EMC’s Limerick campus anchors EMEA operations, support, engineering and manufacturing.

For ICD, these operators are not new-gear customers — they buy OEM-direct or ODM. But they are active sources of decommissioned compute that flows back into the secondary market. EKODAQ’s ITAD network, partnered with ICD for routing into MENA and Africa, handles end-of-lease returns, refresh-cycle tear-outs, and sustainability-driven redeployment of working gear into markets where it still has 3-5 years of productive life.

EKODAQ ITAD Angle — Decommissioning the Dublin Cluster

EKODAQ is ICD Group’s ITAD and asset-disposition arm. Our Irish ITAD workflow: Dublin DC operator schedules a decommissioning window; EKODAQ dispatches a certified team under R2v3 data-security protocols; drive sanitization per NIST 800-88 or DIN 66399 Level H-5; secure logistics to a Rotterdam or Hamburg consolidation hub; triage into working-gear resale tiers (Tier A European enterprise resale, Tier B MENA/Africa redeployment, Tier C component-level salvage, Tier D responsible recycling per WEEE Directive 2012/19/EU). Every kilogram is tracked with a Certificate of Recycling and a Certificate of Data Destruction.

Ireland-specific considerations: WEEE compliance runs through WEEE Ireland and ERP Ireland as the approved producer-compliance schemes. GDPR and the Irish Data Protection Commission oversee data-handling chain of custody — we produce GDPR Article 32 attestations on every drive shredded or wiped. For hyperscale operators the volume is lot-based (hundreds of racks per quarter); for enterprise the cadence is refresh-based (2-3 pallets per quarter typical). Revenue share models and lot-purchase models are both available.

Equinix Dublin 7-Facility Campus + Digital Realty

Equinix operates seven facilities in Dublin — DB1 through DB7 — across Citywest, Blanchardstown and the Docklands. This is the densest single-operator footprint in Ireland. Digital Realty operates the Profile Park campus (multiple buildings) and the Grange Castle campus, now among the largest European DC campuses by power. K2 Data Centres and EdgeConneX are the next-tier operators; CyrusOne and Echelon round out the named cluster. ICD’s Cisco, Dell and HPE parts catalog maps directly to the tenant-mix inside these facilities: banking, media, adtech, SaaS and cloud gateways all run the same core-platform SKUs we stock.

For parts sales into tenant colocators — not the hyperscalers themselves but the SaaS and enterprise tenants leasing cage space inside Equinix and Digital Realty — ICD ships same-day from Cairo to Dublin on DHL Express, 2-3 business days door to data center loading dock. Smart-hands handoff is coordinated with the colocator’s remote hands team on customer request.

AIB + Bank of Ireland + Permanent TSB Core Banking

Ireland’s systemic banks are AIB (Allied Irish Banks), Bank of Ireland, Permanent TSB, and (historically) Ulster Bank (now wound down in the Republic). The Central Bank of Ireland regulates the sector. Core banking runs on a mix of IBM Power AIX mainframes, Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant for distributed workloads, and Oracle Exadata at Bank of Ireland. Storage tiers are Dell EMC PowerMax, HPE Alletra 9000 and IBM FS9200. SEPA payments infrastructure plus Irish-specific TARGET2 and CBPI (Central Bank Payment Infrastructure) compliance drive significant compute footprint.

ICD supplies the banks’ spares and renewed-tier parts through their authorized reseller channels. Direct parts orders to Irish bank infrastructure are uncommon due to the OEM-direct-preferred procurement culture; our lane is renewed-grade for non-production tiers and EKODAQ ITAD for decommissioning.

Eir + Vodafone + Three Ireland Mobile Triad

Eir (formerly Eircom, state-owned until 1999) is Ireland’s incumbent fixed-line and mobile carrier. Vodafone Ireland is the second-largest mobile operator. Three Ireland (owned by CK Hutchison) acquired O2 Ireland in 2014 and is the third operator. All three run Cisco, Nokia and Ericsson at the core, with Cisco ASR9000, NCS 5500, Catalyst 9500 and Nexus 9000 forming the transport backbone. 5G is deployed across all major urban areas through ComReg’s 3.6 GHz and 700 MHz auctions.

ComReg Regulator + 5G Rollout

ComReg (Commission for Communications Regulation) administers spectrum auctions, EU telecom regulation, and consumer policy. The 2022 multi-band auction allocated 700 MHz, 2.1 GHz and 2.6 GHz spectrum across Eir, Vodafone and Three. The 2023 3.6 GHz auction concluded the mid-band 5G rollout. Edge compute for vRAN aggregation uses Dell PowerEdge XR7620, HPE ProLiant DL110 Gen10 Plus and Lenovo ThinkEdge SE450 across far-edge cell sites.

Dublin Port + Shannon Airport Logistics

Dublin Port handles the majority of Ireland’s container freight; Dublin Airport handles the majority of air freight including DHL Express. Shannon Airport in County Clare is a secondary cargo gateway, particularly relevant for Limerick (Dell EMC EMEA HQ) and Cork pharma deliveries. Cairo-to-Dublin DHL Express is 2-3 business days; Cairo-to-Shannon is 3-4 business days with the extra day reflecting the regional-connection leg. For heavy freight, sea route via Rotterdam or Antwerp transshipment adds 7-10 days but drops cost per kg significantly.

Limerick + Cork Secondary IT Hubs

Limerick hosts Dell EMC’s EMEA HQ and manufacturing operations, plus Analog Devices and Johnson & Johnson. Cork hosts Apple’s European HQ, VMware, Dell, Amazon, Logitech and a concentrated pharmaceutical cluster (Pfizer, Eli Lilly, Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, MSD). The Cork pharma IT estate runs validated GxP-compliant compute, which means change-controlled infrastructure refreshes and 21 CFR Part 11-aligned data governance. ICD’s renewed-tier parts are not a natural fit for Cork pharma GxP production; Cork parts demand concentrates on the non-production and development environments.

Intel Leixlip Fab 34 + Semiconductor Ecosystem

Intel’s Leixlip campus in County Kildare hosts Fab 14 (legacy 14nm) and the new Fab 34 EUV facility announced in 2019 and brought online progressively through 2024-2025. Fab 34 is Intel’s first European high-volume manufacturing site for advanced Intel 4 and Intel 3 process nodes, with roughly €17 billion in phased capital investment. The facility operates a vast MES (Manufacturing Execution System) estate, automated material-handling fabrics, in-line SPC analytics, and cleanroom-grade compute running on hardened Dell PowerEdge and HPE ProLiant platforms. Analog Devices in Limerick and Seagate in Derry (Northern Ireland but adjacent ecosystem) round out the Irish semiconductor cluster.

ICD’s role here is limited — Fab compute is OEM-direct and validated-supplier-only for production tiers — but non-production development, data-science and EDA (Electronic Design Automation) compute at the Intel, Analog Devices and Irish semiconductor design houses is a viable secondary channel. EDA workloads benefit from high-core-count Xeon Scalable Gen3/Gen4 CPUs, large RDIMM footprints, and NVMe scratch tiers, all of which ICD stocks.

Post-Brexit EU IT Gateway Position

Post-Brexit, Ireland is the EU’s English-speaking IT gateway and the only common-law EU member state. This status positioned Dublin as the natural EU HQ for US tech firms migrating EMEA headquarters out of London from 2020 onward. For ICD, Ireland remains the reference EU destination for English-language compliance documentation, EU customs clearance under an Irish EORI number, and onward intra-EU distribution to other member states.

ICD Catalog Coverage — Focus on Renewed + ITAD

Dell for Ireland Non-Production + Limerick

Dell PowerEdge R640, R740, R750, R760 renewed-grade. PowerEdge T440/T640 for smaller integrators. EMC Unity XT and PowerStore arrays for mid-tier storage refresh cycles. Full caddy, PERC and DIMM coverage.

HPE for Ireland Banking + Colocation

HPE ProLiant DL360 Gen10/Gen11 and DL380 Gen10/Gen11 for AIB, BOI and PTSB spares. Alletra 6000 mid-tier storage. MSA 2060/2070. Smart Array controllers, PSUs, caddies in depth.

Lenovo for Ireland Development Tiers

Lenovo ThinkSystem SR630 V3 and SR650 V3 for development and UAT tiers at Irish banks and enterprise integrators. ThinkAgile HX for smaller HCI workloads.

Cisco for Ireland Telco + Colocation

Cisco ASR9000 RSPs, NCS 5500 line cards, Catalyst 9500/9300 for Eir, Vodafone and Three cores. UCS C220/C240 for tenant colocation deployments at Equinix and Digital Realty.

IBM for Ireland Legacy Banking Cores

IBM Power S824, S924, E980 for Bank of Ireland and AIB AIX workloads. FlashSystem FS9200 for mainframe-adjacent block storage. Full FC HBA, CDIMM, FlashCore Module stock.

Grid + Power Constraints Driving Secondary-Market Demand

EirGrid’s 2022 moratorium on new Dublin data center grid connections, partial subsequent relaxation, and the 2025 Climate Action Plan obligations have produced a structural shift: new DC capacity is increasingly pushed to regional sites (Athenry, Ennis, Clonee), and existing Dublin operators are more motivated than ever to maximize rack-level efficiency rather than add floor space. This drives two trends relevant to ICD: (1) higher density per rack means faster refresh cycles on compute to hit performance-per-watt gains, generating more ITAD volume; (2) renewed-grade gear with validated power-profile telemetry becomes attractive for non-production tiers where raw efficiency matters less than cap-ex discipline. Both are tailwinds for our secondary-market and ITAD positioning.

Sustainability + Circular-Economy Reporting

Every Irish engagement ends with a sustainability reporting package aligned to the customer’s own CSRD (Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive) and Irish Taxes Consolidation Act environmental reporting obligations. EKODAQ provides kilograms-diverted-from-landfill metrics, CO2e-avoided calculations based on lifecycle extension, WEEE-compliance certificates from WEEE Ireland or ERP Ireland, and a lot-level summary of what flowed into Tier A European resale versus Tier B MENA/Africa redeployment. This documentation is increasingly requested by Irish hyperscalers’ sustainability teams under Scope 3 emissions reporting, and by enterprise IT directors under ESG disclosure frameworks.

Our Ireland lane is the cleanest in the ICD network for circular-economy reporting: short distances to Rotterdam consolidation, EU WEEE regime alignment, English-language documentation, GDPR-aligned data-destruction attestations, and integrated onward flow to MENA and African markets where redeployed equipment extends operational life by 3-5 years.

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2025–2026 Ireland enterprise IT update — EirGrid moratorium lifted, Equinix–BT, and the brand-agnostic positioning

Three structural shifts since April 2026 change the Ireland server-parts conversation for hyperscale operators, IFSC fintech, and the Greater Dublin enterprise base.

• EirGrid Dublin data centre moratorium LIFTED December 2025 via CRU final policy CRU2025236. The blanket ban is replaced with a conditional regime: new Dublin DC applicants must install on-site generation or battery for full demand, feed surplus back to grid, and meet 80% renewables on a six-year glide. Existing DCs are unaffected. New-applicant process published by 31 March 2026. Net-new MW remains tight in Greater Dublin so growth is spilling to Cork, Limerick, Wicklow, Clare, Westmeath and Mayo — ICD ships across all six counties.
• Equinix acquired BT Ireland’s data centre portfolio in 2024 for EUR 59M / USD 69M, adding Citywest and Ballycoolin facilities to the existing DUB1-DUB4 cluster. Combined with Digital Realty’s nine facilities (485,000 sq ft, 170+ clients across pharma/fintech/social media at Profile Park Clondalkin), Greater Dublin now hosts 93 facilities from 26 operators per Datacentermap.com.
• EU-Egypt Association Agreement Euro-Mediterranean cumulation (in force since 2004) gives Egypt-origin HS 8471/8473 server parts 0% customs duty entering Ireland with a EUR.1 movement certificate. Ireland VAT 23% applies on the customs value, recoverable for VAT-registered businesses. ICD pre-issues EUR.1 + EORI-aligned export documentation for every Cairo→Dublin shipment.
• Dell has TWO Irish footprints: Limerick manufacturing plus Cherrywood Co. Dublin EMEA campus (~4,500 staff). ICD’s Irish proposition is therefore brand-agnostic — focused on out-of-warranty PowerEdge break-fix, EOSL coverage across Dell/HPE/Lenovo/Cisco/IBM, and AOG (aircraft-on-ground equivalent for servers) emergency dispatch. We do not compete head-on with Dell new-product channel.
• EKODAQ ITAD secondary angle: hyperscaler refresh cycles in Greater Dublin generate continuous decommissioning demand. EKODAQ provides R2v3-aligned process, NIST 800-88 data sanitisation, DIN 66399 H-5/T-5 destruction and GDPR Article 17 compliance, with per-asset certificate of destruction.

DHL Express Cairo→Dublin transit typically runs 2-4 business days at quote stage. ICD invoices in USD by default with EUR optional via SEPA. AIFC-quality contract terms available on request for Irish enterprise procurement teams.