Meath County Council has granted Facebook planning permission for a new 200 million euro data centre in Clonee.

It's the social network giant's second site in Europe. The company already has a workforce of more than 900 in Ireland.

The first phase will see the construction of two buildings containing eight data halls with a gross floor area of almost 51 thousand square metres.

The chair of Meath County Council Brian Fitzgerald told LMFM that it's great news for the county: