Crag Digital Avoca (Echelon DUB20) data centre campus, Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow

Name: Crag Digital Avoca (Echelon DUB20) data centre campus, Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Address: IE

Announced

Ireland · 1 project · Last reported 2026-08-25

Summary

On 25 August 2026 Crag Digital Avoca Limited, through its agent, wrote to the EPA on industrial emissions licence application P1240-01 under the project name 'DUB20 IE Licence Application', consenting to the Agency's 17 August request to extend the period for a proposed determination. The application, received on 30 June 2026 and still under assessment, is for a new installation at Avoca River Park, Arklow that the applicant's non-technical summary describes as three ICT facility (data centre) buildings with 60 emergency diesel generators, planned for construction under Wicklow County Council permission 23/72 as amended by 25/60806. This dated regulatory filing identifies the project and supports announced status as of 25 August 2026. The national planning register records 23/72 as granted on 25 July 2023 (expiry 24 July 2028) and 25/60806 as granted on 13 January 2026, but no in-window record of those consents is used, so permitted status is not asserted. No site works, construction, completion or operation is claimed. evidence

Crag Digital Avoca Limited (agent Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · published 2026-08-25

Location

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Projects (1)

Crag Digital Avoca DUB20 — three ICT facility (data centre) buildings with 60 emergency generators (Wicklow 23/72 as amended by 25/60806; EPA IE licence application P1240-01)

Announced last observed as of 2026-08-25 · Project announcement

The Agency refers to the licence application received on 30 June 2026 from Crag Digital Avoca Limited for an installation located at Avoca River Park, Arklow, County Wicklow, and asks the applicant to consent to extending the period for a proposed determination so that it can complete a full assessment. evidence

Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · published 2026-08-17

Crag Digital Avoca Limited applies for an IE licence for the operation of a new installation that 'will include 3 no. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) facilities', planned for construction on a brownfield site in the Avoca River Park industrial estate near Arklow. The ICT facility will comprise three ICT buildings housing IT equipment in data storage rooms, supported by 60 emergency diesel generators (each up to 7.6 MWth) on the south side of the buildings with flues up to 22 m. It states that Wicklow County Council granted planning permission for the data centre in June 2023 (WCC Ref 23/72), amended by WCC Ref 25/60806 with a final grant in November 2025. The Avoca River lies about 30 m south of the site. evidence

Crag Digital Avoca Limited (prepared by Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · published 2026-07-09

Licence metadata: Crag Digital Avoca Limited, Avoca River Park, Arklow, Wicklow; new application received 30 June 2026 (EIAR received the same day); licence status Applied; assessment status Under Assessment; no proposed determination or licence issued; NACE 6311 (data processing, hosting and related activities). evidence

Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · publication date not stated

The document list (67 items) runs from the application documents of 9 July 2026 to the applicant's Regulation 14(2) reply of 25 August 2026; it includes the EPA extension notice of 17 August 2026 and a reminder of 18 August 2026, and no proposed determination, inspection report or later filing. evidence

Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · publication date not stated

The agent's email of 7 July 2026 explains that Wicklow planning application 26/60038, then at further-information stage, concerns services infrastructure (foul sewer and water mains) for the wider Avoca River business park and that the Crag Digital Avoca site is intended to be connected to it, subject to that grant; the attachment is Wicklow County Council's correspondence on the status of 26/60038. evidence

Crag Digital Avoca Limited (agent Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · published 2026-07-09

Register records (applicant-name fields not requested): 20/1285, demolition of industrial buildings and three data centre buildings at Avoca River Park (granted 22 March 2021, expiry 21 March 2026); 23/72, three ICT facility buildings of c. 16,206 sq m each (c. 48,618 sq m) on a c. 9.69 ha site, occupying part of and superseding the 20/1285 site, for which ten-year permission was sought (decision 14 June 2023, grant 25 July 2023, register expiry 24 July 2028); 25/60806, amendments to the three permitted 23/72 ICT facility buildings, including an additional roof-mounted landlord generator on each and an enlarged generator compound, noting that operation will require an EPA IE licence (grant 13 January 2026, expiry 12 January 2031); 26/60038, a foul pump station, c. 2.2 km watermain, foul rising main and fibre connecting Avoca River Park to public services (decision 13 August 2026, grant 15 September 2026); 25/60594, a separate ICT facility development of one c. 36,655 sq m and two c. 4,428 sq m buildings at and to the east of Avoca River Park (grant 2 June 2026); 21/1080 and 23/843, energy centres east of the permitted data storage facility site. The 20/1285, 23/72 and 25/60806 points lie 28-93 m from the EPA site-centre point. evidence

Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Irish local authorities (merged planning registers) · publication date not stated

Companies

Operator: Crag Digital Avoca Limited (intended) evidence

Source and location review

Status source

Regulation 14(2) reply on behalf of Crag Digital Avoca Ltd to the EPA on IE licence application P1240-01 ('DUB20 IE Licence Application'), 25 August 2026 evidence row
Crag Digital Avoca Limited (agent Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) · published 2026-08-25 · Regulatory filing

Locator

Campus locator · Compiled location reference · official_regulator_register_installation_site_centre_grid_reference evidence

Source checks

Not reviewed against imagery not_reviewed
No imagery review is recorded for this project. Its status rests only on the dated authoritative source. · no independent imagery verification

Status age at review: 63 days before the data update on 2026-10-27

Location details

Coordinates: 52.81161, -6.17934
Geometry licence: all-rights-reserved
Use scope: Campus locator
Scope class: official_regulator_register_installation_site_centre_grid_reference
Authority: Compiled location reference
Source entity: Campus
Method: epa_register_national_grid_reference_irish_grid_tm75_to_wgs84_pyproj_3_7_1
Derivation: coordinate_transform
Precision scope: Site-centre point of the EPA licence-application installation P1240-01 (three ICT facility buildings and their generator compounds) at Avoca River Park, Arklow, from the register's National Grid Reference N174918 E322814 (the same values as the application form's Site Centre Point), read as TM75 / Irish Grid and transformed to WGS84. It locates the planned installation as a whole, not an individual building, a footprint, an entrance or the site boundary.
Horizontal uncertainty: Not reported
The register gives a single site-centre grid reference at 1 m resolution with no stated survey accuracy for a site of several hectares (23/72 states c. 9.69 ha); the offset to any building is unknown. The TM75-to-WGS84 operation is rated at 1 m; the alternative operation moves the point 2.0 m. Decimal places are arithmetic precision.
Geometry evidence: 4cb7909c

A locator places the site on the map. It is not a building footprint, a construction extent or a surveyed boundary unless the use scope is an official boundary, and even then it is a parcel or permit boundary.

Evidence

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Evidence for Crag Digital Avoca (Echelon DUB20) data centre campus, Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow
Title	Publisher	Roles	Published	Retrieved	Licence	Attribution	Content hash (SHA-256)
Attachment 1.2 Non-Technical Summary, DUB20 Industrial Emissions Licence Application, Crag Digital Avoca Limited (P1240-01, 30 June 2026) Archived copy	Crag Digital Avoca Limited (prepared by Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Regulatory filing	Site and project identity	2026-07-09	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Crag Digital Avoca Limited via EPA LEAP	`9548f1a2a2c5f82e971a7eadc65009b9f8c6f9548a9734f8ea8732fd8a77e708` Retained source material; see source provenance
Attachment 6-3-8 Planning Consideration (June 2026) with the applicant's agent's covering email of 7 July 2026 to the EPA, IE licence application P1240-01 Archived copy	Crag Digital Avoca Limited (agent Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Regulatory filing	Site and project identity	2026-07-09	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Crag Digital Avoca Limited via EPA LEAP	`ff49d67df4ab648015358d60de81ca590c8d29e4629c209459ecf6a139a70f74` Retained source material; see source provenance
EPA IE licence application form LA020319 (P1240-01), Crag Digital Avoca Limited: organisation (section 2) and site geographical location (section 3.2) Archived copy	Crag Digital Avoca Limited, published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Regulatory filing	Operator claim	2026-07-09	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Crag Digital Avoca Limited via EPA LEAP	`656588998230b353b3baca723b9e27a7bb6bdaf505b5905b2a53e326327c752d` Retained source material; see source provenance
EPA LEAP document list for IE licence application P1240-01 (data.epa.ie LEAP API, Document/listbylicenceidfullfiltered) Archived copy	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), LEAP	`bd3b26b3ad8d4e9411c03de18cb88a5b8b4588bb1b7251861438f1a3a35490d1` Retained source material; see source provenance
EPA LEAP licence record P1240-01 (data.epa.ie LEAP API, Licence/fulllbyid) Archived copy	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), LEAP	`295d08cb68f7d79d3dfde5d7b0b8716e97b4fa8e130441790f3a8a56854113fd` Retained source material; see source provenance
EPA notice of 17 August 2026 (Section 87(3), EPA Act 1992; Regulation 14(2)) on the licence application from Crag Digital Avoca Limited for an installation at Avoca River Park, Arklow, County Wicklow (P1240-01) Archived copy	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Government record	Site and project identity	2026-08-17	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), LEAP	`b9111d0da9026ff7ff7ef36f9d82d72d787c469efbb087b43d1edf2e403012dc` Retained source material; see source provenance
EPA Register of IE Licence Application No. P1240-01 (Crag Digital Avoca Limited, Avoca River Park, Arklow) Archived copy	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Government record	Geometry	2026-07-09	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland), LEAP	`c8dd5392ef1109775ab27b2edf584e20374c4fbc655a36337f62db0f4371bc4c` Retained source material; see source provenance
Irish national planning applications register (IrishPlanningApplications feature service): Wicklow County Council records at Avoca River Park, Shelton Abbey and Kilbride, Arklow, including 20/1285, 23/72, 25/60806, 25/60594, 21/1080, 23/843 and 26/60038 Archived copy	Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government and Irish local authorities (merged planning registers) Government record	Site and project identity	not stated	2026-10-26	CC-BY-4.0	Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government; Wicklow County Council	`dc0d118f35288335fc707ba8bc76f4b456994a4b59365adf8b30d647bdc09a8d` Retained source material; see source provenance
Regulation 14(2) reply on behalf of Crag Digital Avoca Ltd to the EPA on IE licence application P1240-01 ('DUB20 IE Licence Application'), 25 August 2026 Archived copy	Crag Digital Avoca Limited (agent Sweco Ireland Ltd), published by the Environmental Protection Agency (Ireland) Regulatory filing	Project announcement	2026-08-25	2026-10-26	all-rights-reserved	Crag Digital Avoca Limited via EPA LEAP	`bcfe90e2514dd4231ed58e8e4eb70ed32d3e48d8e16e3ebf5c5e3d0fd9264bc6` Retained source material; see source provenance

Cite this site

Kyars, K. (2026). Crag Digital Avoca (Echelon DUB20) data centre campus, Avoca River Park, Arklow, Co. Wicklow [site vcc-site-e19fd3b1049113579ba8]. In Data Center Atlas (2026-10-27) [Data set]. https://kiankyars.github.io/datacenter-atlas/sites/vcc-site-e19fd3b1049113579ba8/

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