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Microsoft has opened a datacentre in west Dublin which could create up t 35 jobs. Read the full story below courtesy of the IRISH TIMES.

Microsoft has opened a new “mega datacentre” in west Dublin to support growing demand for online services, the first such centre opened outside the US.

The centre is part of the company’s strategy to build its cloud computing capacity and network infrastructure to meet the demand generated from its Online, Live, and Cloud services, such as Bing, Microsoft Business Productivity Online Suite, Windows Live, and the Windows Azure platform.

The 303,000 square-foot facility represents an investment of $500 million. Microsoft representatives said up to 35 jobs could be created as a result of the new centre.

The company is not publicising the exact location of the centre, citing security reasons.

Speaking at the centre’s official opening, Taoiseach Brian Cowen said economy needed dynamic, innovative companies to help rebuild the economy.

“We envisage a high-value, export-led economy with companies creating the products and services of tomorrow and providing high quality employment for our people,” he said.

Microsoft International president Jean-Philippe Courtois said the opening of the new centre was a “milestone” in the company’s European investment and would provide critical infrastructure for local delivery of next generation online services for businesses and consumers.

The new services provided in the Irish economy by the centre will help drive efficiency and cost gains fro businesses here, Microsoft Ireland’s managing director Paul Rellis said.

“The opportunity that the cloud represents to cut costs and completely transform how information technology is run within organisations is something that could have a significant impact on the overall economic recovery efforts,” he said.

“A healthy indigenous business community will be at the heart of our future economic success. Already we have some of Ireland’s brightest innovators and entrepreneurs who are working with us through the BizSpark programme – engaged and involved with the cloud. I would encourage all organisations of all sizes to look at the potential that this new platform offers and to consider how they might take advantage of it within their own operations.”

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The papers yesterday announced negative jobs news for north and south. Glanbia announced that it will be cutting 50 jobs at HQ in West Dublin. Meanwhile in Belfast 40 Jobs will be cut by financial company ClearCo. These lastest announcements come at the end of a grey week for jobs news. Although the previous post announce 190 new jobs for Newry & Belfast with First Derivatives & ICS Computing many jobs were lost. Here is a quick summary below.

GE Healthcare announced 50 job cuts in Cork.

Powerscreen announced 90 job cuts in Tyrone

County Council announced 48 redundancies in Kildare.

Microsoft announced 17 job cuts in Dublin

Finally the biggest news of the week was that Ulster Bank announce 750 job cuts across Ireland. There will be 200 cut in Northern Ireland and 550 across the south.

Shannon and Dublin based Avocent International Ltd has announced that it will be cutting its Irish workforce by 64 as a result of restructuring. The IT company currently employs 167 staff in Ireland so staff numbers will drop to 103. The company specialises in IT infrastructure management and employs 1800 staff globally with clients including Boeing, Intel & Microsoft. Although 200 jobs will be lost globally Shannon will be the hardest hit.

These jobs will be lost to singapore with costs being cited as the main driver for the move. This latest news is another hammer blow to the region.

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Well Bill Gates is no longer No1 richest man on the planet. He has been overtaken by Warren Buffet. Below are some of the findings by Forbes List of the world’s top billionaires. These guys have more money than some small countries.

1. $62bn Warren Buffet – American Investor
2. $60bn Carlos Slim Helum – Mexican Telecoms Guru
3. $58bn Bill Gates – Microsoft.

Six Irish made the list. Leading the list was Sean Quinn with $6bn and others include Denis O’Brien, Dermot Desmond, Sir Anthony O’Reilly, John Dorrance and Mr Mistrum. I guess the Celtic Tiger has been good to the Irish after all.

The youngest pretender of the list is of course – Mr Facebook.