Construction & Civil Engineering Issue 228 - July 2026 | Page 109

______________________________________________________________________________________ Echelon
Data Centres
Whether it is material reuse on site, social clauses written into our construction contracts or support for large renewable energy projects, we embrace a multi-faceted approach
“ At Echelon, we develop digital infrastructure assets, focusing primarily on data centres. We design, build, and operate them, and then lease them to some of the largest and most recognisable companies in the world. That is the core of what we do. Alongside the data centres themselves, we also build power plants and substations, constructing the energy infrastructure needed to keep these facilities running. We were originally founded in 2017 as a singlemarket specialist in Ireland, but we have since grown into three additional locations: the UK, Italy and Spain,” he begins.
Continuous improvement
Underpinning everything Echelon does is a power-first approach. As cloud migration accelerates and AI becomes an evergreater part of our daily life, the demand for data centre capacity continues to grow. While that growth requires land to site the infrastructure and skilled people to design, build and operate it, the single biggest constraint is almost always power. That is where Echelon can step in and offer something truly distinctive.“ Taking our first data centre campus in west Dublin as an example, we have not only built 600,000
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