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class="c-divider"/></article><article class="c-grid b-top-table-list-small b-top-table-list-small--right"><h2 class="c-heading"><a class="c-link" href="/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/">How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance</a></h2><a class="c-link" href="/world/us/2025/03/01/how-jd-vance-emerged-as-the-chief-saboteur-of-the-transatlantic-alliance/" aria-hidden="true" tabindex="-1"><figure class="c-media-item"><img data-chromatic="ignore" alt="How JD Vance emerged as the chief saboteur of the transatlantic alliance" class="c-image" loading="lazy" src="https://www.irishtimes.com/resizer/v2/YBVMO2YQFOK5RGGDCJHEXY375Q.jpg?focal=4460%2C1030&auth=5d4162425d734488ca0eb48308a2377fa7bddcad2a10f0a28c1c1162f33ff8af&width=800&height=533" 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code or face fines of up to €20 million, or 10 per cent of a platform’s annual turnover, whichever is greater.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Under legislation, there is a 28-day window for those who believe they are affected by decisions of the commission to seek judicial review in the courts.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-18db5f30e9f2cb" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fF3YXEzrty1PE-3-4-3-18db5f30e9f2cb" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The online safety code was developed following the enactment of the Online Safety and Media Regulation Act 2022. The code gives effect to certain obligations on the State outlined in the European Commission’s Audiovisual Media Services Directive (AVMSD).</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The details of the case being taken to the High Court by Twitter International Unlimited Company are not yet known.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">But in a submission to the commission on August 12th, Twitter International Unlimited Company said it strongly supported “the co-regulatory approach encouraged by the AVMSD, to achieve protection of all users, including children and young people, from harmful online content. However, we view that it is important that Ireland’s transposition of the AVMSD does not impose obligations which go beyond what is required by the AVMSD and which potentially conflict with the Digital Services Act.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">It argued there were opportunities to address these issues without undermining the policy intent and effectiveness of the code.</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">“Twitter International Unlimited Company reserves its right to challenge the lawfulness of the code. We reserve our position and all rights at this time, regarding Coimisiún na Meán’s legislative and procedural approach, including in relation to further guidance being issued.”</p><p class="c-paragraph paywall">Under the new code content constituting cyberbullying, promoting self-harm or suicide and promoting eating or feeding disorders, incitement to hatred or violence, terrorism, child sex-abuse material, racism and xenophobia is prohibited.</p><div id="arcad-feature-f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-5e29fa44e4f3b" class="default__StyledAdUnit-sc-1moicrg-0 gKEhzJ arcad-feature" style="--mobile-display:block;--tablet-display:block;--desktop-display:block"><div class="arcad-container width_100" style="max-width:550px"><div id="arcad_f0fyRwJHzrty1c0-3-4-4-5e29fa44e4f3b" class="arcad ad-550x250"></div></div></div><p class="c-paragraph paywall">The code also compels platforms to enact age assurance controls where appropriate — including the prevention of children encountering pornography or 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This week it merged with Digital Infrastructure Ireland to create a unified group and strengthen the industry’s lobbying hand.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VSQRGYC4OZE33FGSDWZUDJ7VBU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540347},"content":"The new group, also called Digital Infrastructure Ireland, forms as Government works on a new policy for the business that will bid to balance its high energy demands with its economic benefits. At the same time energy industry overseer, the <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/commission-for-regulation-of-utilities-cru/\" target=\"_blank\">Commission for the Regulation of Utilities</a> (CRU), is seeking submissions on proposed new electricity grid connections rules for data centres.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3EIOC54ELZAUJJSCF32CONNSFM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540348},"content":"To tackle challenges posed by an industry that will consume up to 30 per cent of all electricity used here by 2032, the regulator will demand that these facilities have their own backup generation on site, or nearby. In addition, they should supply power to the electricity market, that is, homes and businesses. Something Connolly says many are already doing.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NGJG72DSDBGUXEWHSUETWCEH24","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540349},"content":"Data centres’ appetite for electricity cast them as pantomime villains during the recent energy crisis. The outcry that followed the airing of concerns about their consumption raised by national grid operator EirGrid, with the CRU, prompted the Government to revisit its policy of encouraging their location here, and a review by the regulator of connection rules that produced the proposals published last week.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZYC7HJPWR5GE3BBGO2GB34KT74","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540350},"content":"For Connolly, their demonisation began much earlier, this month 10 years ago, when Apple <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/apple-to-invest-850m-in-new-galway-data-centre-1.2113865\" target=\"_blank\">announced plans to build an €850 million data centre</a> in Athenry, Co Galway. The iPhone maker <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/apple-scraps-plan-for-850-million-data-centre-in-athenry-1.3490316#:~:text=Apple%20on%20Thursday%20announced%20that,us%20to%20make%20other%20plans%E2%80%9D.\" target=\"_blank\">axed the proposal three years</a> later following a planning row and court battle. The controversy severely dented the Republic’s reputation as the primary location for these facilities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ID66FRZ5ZVES3KGNQI7V2K5BPQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540351},"content":"Up to that point, the Republic had “first refusal” on any significant project, according to Connolly. “Now in 2025, not only do we not have first refusal, we’re not on the list,” he says. The resulting lost investment could be €15 billion to €20 billion, figures that the industry lobbyist says “is just capital”, only taking account of the centres themselves.","type":"text"},{"_id":"6UAFQ5NEFBEKVH3XICQQERLDSE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540352},"content":"“We’ve missed out on the monetisation of the data that would have been in the centres, that feed our largest export. So, when you demonise the centres, you’re effectively demonising the big tax takes, the exports, the balance of trade.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"450346fe-fed1-4462-8964-229b0526ad88","additional_properties":{},"subtype":"irish-times-video","type":"video"},{"_id":"MMWRGGS3NJFXZCGL4HISOXIP6Q","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540353},"content":"Current attitudes make us an outlier among trading partners, and rivals for foreign investment. Connolly says that in recent weeks countries have pledged billions to support digital infrastructure. The US has committed $500 billion, France €200 billion, the UK more than €60 billion, while other European countries are committed to rolling out similarly lucrative welcome mats. Putting those sums in context, the industry has invested about €15 billion here over two decades.","type":"text"},{"_id":"4AA3WS43GRATFDIUNZNPQ7GKVE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740673297926},"content":"The Irish Times view on data centres: trying to solve the energy puzzle","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"J7SHUZCH3JBTJOFFQHDVDTALI4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540354},"content":"For him, the irony of this is that Irish people and companies, including members of his organisation, will design, build and operate many centres in Europe. That is down to skills they built up over decades of working with the industry, and what he calls our pedigree in ICT.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VBSSJTP54VDYLCFGGF3RRWKXPI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540355},"content":"Irish workers leave airports on Monday mornings to fly to “Frankfurt, Paris, Amsterdam, London” where they are building data centres. “We’re exporting all those skills,” he says. “There’s nothing happening here.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LTXI5GCFBFFIZGMAXLCIGFBOZY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540356},"content":"He noticed a newspaper headline about “fuming data centres” following the CRU’s publication of its proposals last week. “Nobody is fuming,” he says. “Because there’s such opportunity everywhere else. The irony of it is all those companies are doing multiples of what they could do here. If you look at the [data centre] operators, none of them are fuming, because they are now working in Paris, or they’re working in Milan. Everywhere else has caught up.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"LFOB2NASPFHMXCEMWOPQT53NCE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540357},"content":"Irish expertise in data centre development slots into one of his key arguments, that these facilities are a natural extension of economic development that began with our entry to what is now the EU in 1973. A quarter of a century later, the State was one of the world’s biggest software exporters. Data is just the latest wave. When it began replacing the CDs from which people once downloaded software 20 years ago, the Republic, with its existing industry, was a natural place to locate.","type":"text"},{"_id":"OIRHE4MBC5HY7LA3QUQAXJPA2A","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540358},"content":"But there is a counterargument. ICT is not our only export; others are just as lucrative. Pharmaceutical manufacturers employ large numbers and as the industry mainly responsible for the State’s recent corporate tax windfalls, it is hard to argue that it does not deliver value.","type":"text"},{"_id":"UPXMPL3YPJDMHDGUIE7H5C62LA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740673297932},"content":"That and all other businesses need electricity, which is expensive in this country, while supplies were under severe pressure up to recently. So, promoting an activity that soaks up so much of it risks endangering others, not to mention the burden that pricey energy imposes on families?","type":"text"},{"_id":"TT22WVADWZCJLNAK65YY7RNFTM","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540359},"content":"That presupposes that there is a “finite bag” of electricity, which Connolly maintains should not be the case. He argues that the Republic needs to accelerate the rate at which it intends exploiting offshore wind for electricity, something about which it has been talking since the start of the century.","type":"text"},{"_id":"QEU7JNAKW5DAXOCNX7EGOUNXP4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540360},"content":"Data centres can aid this through corporate power purchase agreements, deals where companies pledge to buy all a supplier’s electricity, giving developers certainty that allows them to raise the cash needed for individual projects. He takes this a step further, rolling out the well-worn cliche that the Republic should be to renewable energy what “Saudi Arabia is to oil”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"O2Q6IB6L3VEKBIMDUSBXSH44XY","additional_properties":{"_id":1740673297935},"content":"Eamon Ryan hails Ireland’s role as ‘world leader’ on data centres","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"EZOGME33BVDW3FVDJECG3CLGLI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540361},"content":"“Think about that for a second,” he says. “You’re exporting the wholesale raw material, if you get there. But you have an industry that can use that raw material, turn it into a retail product: data, and export it, it’s a much better return on investment for everybody.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"62H5PDIHBVEMDKLMYKSY4B3WPA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540362},"content":"His industry’s “disproportionate” appetites are a consequence of the fact that it is producing something for much bigger markets than this country. This also applies to “life sciences, pharmaceuticals, even Guinness for goodness sake”, as all those industries are geared at export. “Or the amount of square footage down the international Financial Services Centre as a percentage of five million people, why does Ireland need all those financial services? It’s not for Ireland, it’s for Europe.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"HNVG7FKLSRFB5LVQPUTG4NBDFE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540363},"content":"Connolly began working life as “the world’s worst Cobol programmer”. Whatever his abilities, he found a niche through his training in the computer language. He realised that programmers often found themselves at odds with their customers when both were trying to solve the same problem. “One was talking in zeros and ones, the other was talking in shillings and pence,” he recalls.","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PQYZVGMXBGUZMFM3EYCK5LK3Y","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540364},"content":"He knew enough about Cobol to understand what it could do, and enough about businesses to understand what they wanted, so he became a sales engineer, starting with BA Systems. Jobs with ICL Fujitsu and British Telecom followed. In 1994, he cofounded what subsequently became the country’s leading voice and data systems business, Bridgecom. Denis O’Brien’s Esat Telecom bought it four years later. Connolly then cofounded HR software developer, Engage Technologies, which Northgate HR bought in 2006.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XX753XESEZGKLLE2HG66PPEZSA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540365},"content":"His career has bridged technology and foreign direct investment. He also chairs GconnTech, a business that aids overseas investors with the nuts and bolts of establishing a base here, including finding legal and professional services, offices, IT and even staff induction handbooks.","type":"text"},{"_id":"PQJPOGMGHFG4BHB6S3VYVF5XKI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540366},"content":"The Host in Ireland-Digital Infrastructure Ireland merger reflects not just the industry’s need to unify as it reaches a critical point with Government and regulators, but the fact that it embraces everything from data itself to services, construction and power supply.","type":"text"},{"_id":"N2FRLBJVCRHNXB3624E4CHN774","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540367},"content":"Host in Ireland’s original members drew heavily from businesses that serviced the industry, while Digital Infrastructure Ireland’s membership was more focused on the operators. The merged organisation’s “partners” include global data centre giant Equinix, power manager Schneider Electric, construction group Kirby, data center operators T5, and lawyers Eversheds Sutherland, to name but a few.","type":"text"},{"_id":"GB7YU2TL4RD4LJAJJWYKCLZPPU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540368},"content":"The biggest players in the global data business are Microsoft, Amazon and Google. They do not build the centres, but rent space from those that do. When you download or use an app, the chances are that one of them is hosting it. Those groups all have well-established businesses here and have their own representation through employers lobby group Ibec.","type":"text"},{"_id":"VZXCIPR3PBH3ZOC3QVFOPMTIGI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540369},"content":"Connolly feels there is a change of mood since the refreshed Coalition took office last month. That is partly based on the CRU’s document, which refers to the need for a State-led solution to the data centre question. The other is Taoiseach Micháel Martin’s pledge to create a Climate Investment Clearing House that will focus on energy.","type":"text"},{"_id":"IOT6V5DBOZE63L3QQXGMJQGWCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740673297945},"content":"Video: Data centres in Ireland: 'The size of the grid is too small for our economy'","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"ZZKARE2JCFAFNFGONCHRAJTFYA","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540370},"content":"“I would be cautiously optimistic that after 10 years that we can have a collective discussion, with industry, the State, with regulators, to look at the data and the centres, the economic value and the future potential for driving offshore wind development,” he says.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DSWVYYS6TNHLLBBOE6SHNHA7RQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540371},"content":"He wants Martin to adopt the approach taken in the early 1990s to financial services. That brought the business together with the government, its agencies and planners, and resulted in Dublin becoming a centre for the sector.","type":"text"},{"_id":"MR6VOXEUMBA4LLIGIELOAWI7G4","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540372},"content":"Connolly argues that the State has always played a role in luring overseas cash, beginning with the IDA building advance factories, then linking their multinational tenants with third-level education. That involvement brings certainty, something all investors want before committing to any location, he notes.","type":"text"},{"_id":"NPL6ZISOHJF5HG6BPFLP2FTMDI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540373},"content":"Part of that uncertainty is – no surprise – the planning system. There is no indication yet that the Planning Act, 2024, passed in October, will deal with this, as it is some way from being enacted and tested.","type":"text"},{"_id":"ZQIKZ4FVURBAHIWNG23JECNWRQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540374},"content":"“During the previous administration, we worked out that there could be between five and seven different agencies involved in a data centre,” he says. “You get over one hurdle, you have to deal with another, you get over this hurdle, you have to go to the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], you go to EPA, you can’t get a gas connection.","type":"text"},{"_id":"DUNVYDBXVNGHJI5JTOVFK7GZCI","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540375},"content":"“That makes it difficult when you have other advanced jurisdictions, including the Netherlands, which has a department of digital infrastructure, or the UK, who are going to treat data as critical infrastructure.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PHRZXZVR5JDCXPUEUVAY2EGZ5I","additional_properties":{"_id":1740652540376},"content":"Connolly argues that data is “critical” and if the State wants to keep the industry and its benefits here, it needs to act. 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","type":"text"},{"_id":"LC5KKH2MV5GDHGXVTMEUUQFC7U","additional_properties":{},"content":"“We felt like it was the time to strike and go and capture as much of this market as we can.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"PMSMGFNXYRGZ7A4EYUJN6LA6Q4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The workflow automation company recently announced it had raised $125 million in a Series C financing round led by Growth Equity at <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/goldman-sachs-group/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/goldman-sachs-group/\">Goldman Sachs</a> Alternatives, bringing in new investors <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/softbank/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/softbank/\">SoftBank</a> Vision Fund 2 and Activant. Existing investors Accel, Felicis, CrowdStrike Falcon Fund and Addition also took part. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"YNMBNY5T6ZF6VIPYAVUV4OINXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"The company has now raised $272 million in funding, $175 million of that in under a year, when the current round is taken into account. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"WDIERXOCPRHIFADIBD6VY2HW6U","additional_properties":{},"content":"Hinchy said the company would likely have planned a fundraising for 2025 anyway although it had yet to put a timeline on it. Then came the Goldman opportunity. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"DXIZSNLQW5HBJJEQTKDRMNO76A","additional_properties":{},"content":"“It’s not even nine months since we did our last fundraise and we were in a very fortunate position that we didn’t really need to do this one,” he says. “But when an investor of Goldman’s calibre comes along, you take that opportunity and you run with it as fast as you can.”","type":"text"},{"_id":"E3CLILDN3FDL7HCOQILJNKJIQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tines has been building its business solidly since it was founded by Hinchy and Thomas Kinsella in 2018. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"R3MMOVGBDJDZJIFEEZ7LIY773E","additional_properties":{},"content":"The company develops software to help workers automate security workflows quickly, easily and without the need for advanced technical skills. That frees up software engineers to focus on more critical tasks, rather than getting bogged down in mundane ones. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2PEI5GOT2BDALKLHTBM3YXIHTY","additional_properties":{},"content":"Tines tops LinkedIn list of Irish start-ups","type":"interstitial_link"},{"_id":"RE63FBXNQZH2LNJXYQ2XHPXWKI","additional_properties":{},"content":"By 2022, the company had raised $96 million, including a $55 million round in October of that year. Among its customers were Coinbase, McKesson, Canva, Databricks, MongoDB, Sophos, Kayak, and Fenergo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"J2XJ7MGX3BFVPNCZ2MEHNMILZA","additional_properties":{},"content":"That was before the beginning of the great generative AI push that propelled <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/chatgpt/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/chatgpt/\">ChatGPT</a>, Claude and <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gemini/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/tags/gemini/\">Gemini</a> into the spotlight. Now Tines is riding the wave of interest in AI-powered technology. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"G6FWQV447RAFHFLEUCQCM3EMNE","additional_properties":{},"content":"But Hinchy says its core focus has never changed, despite the surge of AI. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"CJDCYZQBPRBNVKTSQSLDBDWTV4","additional_properties":{},"content":"“There are some macro tailwinds that we have been very fortunate to find ourselves in front of,” he says. “But our mission has always been to power the world’s most important workflows. That has been it from day one, and that’s not going to change. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"2DHFYYX7ORGRRKGDR45SALPYVU","additional_properties":{},"content":"“What is interesting is that the mission has genuinely never been more important. We went from our workflow automation being an important part of everyone’s technology stack to, with AI and large language models (LLMs) coming on the scene, becoming the most important technology decision that companies are making as part of their enterprise strategies.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"O7A3OIXAVZDFLM4D4HHOWA35CE","additional_properties":{},"content":"Despite the rapidly shifting tech landscape, one thing hasn’t changed: companies want value for their investment.","type":"text"},{"_id":"3NG5KXFYMRARVF3PVAHDVZOCXU","additional_properties":{},"content":"All of this has benefited Tines. The Irish company was being touted last year as a “soonicorn”, a company that would soon reach the magic $1 billion valuation. Only a small number of Irish companies have reached that status in the past few years, companies like LetsGetChecked, Wayflyer, Flipdish and Fenergo.","type":"text"},{"_id":"EH4RVTPCBFCYTMUF7H6R5HF4YI","subtype":"pullquote","type":"quote"},{"_id":"WIZV3TZZ7NHKDIOK5VG4ENKSQ4","additional_properties":{},"content":"The latest funding round tips Tines into full unicorn status, with a $1.1 billion valuation. It is a label Hinchy says Tines will wear with pride, especially given a decline in valuations in the tech sector in recent years. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"SRWN5BBVINHZ7NB67SPZ75HELQ","additional_properties":{},"content":"“I think the 2020/21 landscape for funding was a little bit different,” he says. “It feels a little bit more meaningful, I would say, in the last couple of years, just given how difficult fundraising has been.” ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IJNK5QKWI5ABTOJVBP3XD3R7PU","additional_properties":{},"content":"There are big plans for the money, including research and development to further develop its products. One of the beneficiaries is likely to be <a href=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/2024/09/12/irish-start-up-tines-unveils-new-ai-tool-for-security-teams/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\" title=\"https://www.irishtimes.com/technology/2024/09/12/irish-start-up-tines-unveils-new-ai-tool-for-security-teams/\">Workbench, an AI chat tool that Tines unveiled last year</a> to help security teams use large language models securely on proprietary data. The demand for that has how outstripped what Tines expected, Hinchy says, with large enterprises investing in it. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"ASHXEGLCYJFFBBUPX664SV3ZT4","additional_properties":{},"content":"That is a trend that Tines has seen throughout its business. Overall, the use of its technology has grown rapidly in the past year. Automated actions within its platform have tripled in the past year, a growth rate it expects to accelerate as more large companies come on board. ","type":"text"},{"_id":"IPVMI3ZJ3BAKTFOZJZCI5P3SHE","additional_properties":{},"content":"To deal with this surge in demand, there are also plans to expand the workforce, adding around 100 people across all departments, from engineering to more general roles. Tines currently employs around 250 people; in March 2020, when Covid hit, it had only five staff. 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According to its most recent US regulatory filing, it realised $384 million (€366 million) of grants and refundable tax credits in 2024 from non-US government sources “substantially all and a majority of which, respectively, related to the expansion of silicon wafer manufacturing facilities in Ireland”.","type":"text"},{"_id":"XET3DIY6WFDTVDETOYSAIKYLNU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740487472835},"content":"Given that the Industrial Development Authority generally hands out about €100 million to €120 million a year in incentives, it is not bad going. But that is not the point at issue. The question is given Intel’s serious problems – marked by its shares down 60 per cent at one stage last year – should we be investing any more money in the company at all?","type":"text"},{"_id":"XAIZ73ZWRZAZVNPSMZVNOXYBWE","additional_properties":{"_id":1740487472836},"content":"Intel is in trouble. It missed the artificial intelligence “revolution” which has propelled rivals including chip designer Nvidia into pole position. It has also fallen behind other manufacturers such as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TMSC) in terms of the race to produce faster chips.","type":"text"},{"_id":"45SKWL7VOJDRDCNEBOLIXY7LEQ","additional_properties":{"_id":1740487472837},"content":"A turnaround plan to address these problems led by chief executive Pat Glesinger – who was ousted in December – has stalled and the break-up of the company into its chip design business and its manufacturing, or foundry, arm is being contemplated.","type":"text"},{"_id":"5SXQGV4MOVG6BE7MHILT7RVIGU","additional_properties":{"_id":1740487472838},"content":"TMSC is reported to be interested in the US factories and US chip maker Broadcom is looking at its chip design business. 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