Find land near the power a data centre draws
Data centresNew
Every field in the State joined to spare capacity to draw power at medium- and high-voltage substations on ESB Networks’ heatmap. Ask for 2–10 ha within 2 km of 10 MVA, or a campus of 10 ha within 5 km of 50 MVA, and get the fields.
- fields of 2–10 ha within 2 km of 10 MVA, outside greater Dublin
- 4,527
- fields of 2–10 ha within 2 km of 10 MVA, outside greater Dublin
- substations with 20 MVA or more to draw
- 58
- substations with 20 MVA or more to draw
- substations on the heatmap
- 46,525
- substations on the heatmap
Search by the power you need
Capacity to draw, not to exportNew
A data centre takes power from the grid, so the search reads each substation’s spare demand capacity.
Size and distance
From a 2 ha site to a campus: pick the spare capacity — 1, 5, 10, 20, 50 MVA — and how far the land may be from it.
Blocked headroom left out
Some substations show headroom that is constrained further up the network. Those are left out of these results and marked where they appear.
Greater Dublin set aside
EirGrid consider the greater Dublin region fully constrained for large data centres, so Dublin, Kildare, Meath, Wicklow are left out unless you ask for them.
On every field
Spare capacity to draw
The best figure within 500 m, 1 km, 2 km and 5 km of the field.
With everything else
Buildings, flood, designated sites, heritage and planning history, in the same search.
Data centres: questions
Where can a data centre connect to the grid in Ireland?
EirGrid’s May 2026 overview considers the greater Dublin region fully constrained for large data centres, and points to the 220 kV network around Galway, Limerick and Cork, much of it from the mid-2030s. For smaller schemes, Precedent finds fields near spare distribution capacity to draw.
Does Precedent show EirGrid’s transmission capacity?
No. EirGrid do not yet publish station-level demand capacity; heat maps are expected with the 2027 Ten Year Transmission Forecast Statement. Precedent uses ESB Networks’ distribution heatmap and links EirGrid’s overview beside the figures.
What does a new data centre need to connect?
Since December 2025 the CRU’s Large Energy Users Connection Policy asks a new data centre to bring its own generation or storage and to meet most of its demand with new renewables. Each application is assessed where it would connect.
Built on official public registries
- ESB Networks availability capacity heatmap
- 46,525 substations, compiled 12 December 2025
- EirGrid
- Data Centre Constrained Area Overview, May 2026 — linked from the tool
- Tailte Éireann
- 3,217,764 Land Registry titles (CC BY 4.0)
- OpenStreetMap contributors
- positions of medium- and high-voltage substations (ODbL)
Figures are ESB Networks’ distribution heatmap, compiled 12 December 2025 — not a connection offer, and not EirGrid’s transmission network, which the largest data centres connect to.
All in one platform
Every feature works on the same map, against the same 31 planning authorities.
- Find opportunitiesSite sourcing
- Find opportunitiesDerelict sites and housesNew
- Assess planning & policyPlanning decisions & refusal reasons
- Assess planning & policySite audit
- Assess planning & policyZoning objectives
- Assess planning & policyHeritage & protected structures
- Assess planning & policyDemographicsNew
- Assess planning & policySubsoil & peatNew
- Ownership, value & costsOwner lookupNew
- Ownership, value & costsSale prices & land valuesNew
- Find opportunitiesResidential Zoned Land Tax map
- Find opportunitiesFields & farmland searchNew
- Find opportunitiesApproved, not startedNew
- Find opportunitiesSchemes in for planningNew
- Find opportunitiesStrategic landNew
- Find opportunitiesRefused sites to try againNew
- InfrastructureGrid capacityNew
See it on your own patch
A short call with the founder, on real sites in the county you work in. About twenty minutes — you will know by the end whether it is any use to you.