Ireland Tech Roundup: Data Centre Economics Challenged, Squarespace Commits €70m, and Fintech Eyes Banking Licence

A new academic paper has torn into the Government's flagship data centre report, calling its methodology "flawed" and its claims "exaggerated." The study, authored by researchers at NUI Maynooth and UCD, argues that the KPMG-backed report — which cost the Department of Enterprise over €100,000 and claimed data centres "underpin" 876,000 jobs — is built on a "spurious" survey of just 30 large private firms averaging 2,100–5,200...