A new data center campus is being proposed in Ireland’s County Kildare, southwest of Dublin.

The Irish Times and Irish Independent report local company Herbata Ltd is to lodge an application with Kildare County Council for a “next generation data center campus which will, uniquely, not depend on the national grid for power.”

The three-hectare campus will comprise six two-story data center buildings at Jigginstown, Halverstown, and Newhall, Naas, on lands bound to the east by the M7 Business Park. Each building will include a 24,755 sqm (266,460 sq ft) data hall and total around 30MW.

The application also includes infrastructure for district heating, a substation, gas turbines, a gas engine, and battery energy storage systems. Solar panels covering 3,600 sqm (38,750 sq ft) will be placed on the roofs.

The substation plans have been filed under a separate application that was submitted last year.

Few details about Herbata are available online.

Naas has two sites that have been earmarked for data center use in the Council’s 2021-2027 Naas Local Area Plan. Microsoft has previously confirmed it is planning a data center campus on one of the sites.

A spokesperson for Microsoft told the Irish Times the company is “still in the early stages of developing plans for a data center campus near Jigginstown” and could not say when an application will be lodged.

Elsewhere in the county, Davy Group and the Liffey Sub-Fund are developing a data center campus on a former HP campus in Barnhall Meadows, Leixlip.