Vertiv has announced plans to submit a planning application to Donegal County Council for a further 7,000 sq m production facility at its Letterkenny base, creating up to 300 new jobs. It gives operators tracking Ireland's digital infrastructure buildout a concrete sign that manufacturing capacity, not just data centre construction itself, is being scaled to keep pace with AI-driven demand.

Vertiv is an Ohio-based digital infrastructure company that designs power, cooling and IT systems for data centres and other commercial facilities, operating in more than 130 countries. In Ireland it employs close to 2,500 people across Letterkenny and Burnfoot in Donegal, Campsie in Derry, a central procurement office in Limerick and a sales and service office in Dublin.

The planned Letterkenny extension builds on a year in which Vertiv has already added more than 500 staff to its Irish operations, with engineering and operational roles still open across its sites.

Vertiv's EMEA president, Paul Ryan, said the expansion reflects Ireland's strategic importance to the group's global business, adding that demand for critical digital infrastructure continues to accelerate as customers deploy AI and data centre capacity worldwide.

The investment lands inside a wider FDI pattern. Ireland now hosts 107 operational data centres backed by roughly €18.5 billion in cumulative investment, with the sector's design, engineering and support ecosystem sustaining around 40,000 jobs nationally.

IDA Ireland reported 190 new investments and close to 10,410 committed jobs across the first half of 2026, with regional projects accounting for 52 per cent of the total, a split that positions Donegal-based expansions like Vertiv's as part of a deliberate push to spread FDI beyond Dublin.

For operators supplying the data centre value chain, Vertiv's move signals that regional Irish sites are now trusted to carry production scale-up work directly, rather than serving only as satellite operations to larger hubs elsewhere in the network.

Source: Irish Times / Bizworld Ireland / RTÉ