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Seagate Launches £115 Million Project in Northern Ireland to Scale Storage Capacity Toward 100TB
Seagate's £115 million investment will create 30 skilled jobs and boost local supply chains to meet rising global data storage needs driven by AI and hyperscale centers.
- Seagate Technology Holdings announced a £115 million investment at its Derry factory to create around 30 new jobs and fund research and development over five years.
- This investment follows Seagate’s long history in Northern Ireland, where it opened in 1993 and has received over £1 billion in funding, including £15 million from Invest NI for Mozaic 6+ technology development.
- The Derry plant produces over a quarter of the world’s recording heads and pioneers semiconductor laser research crucial for next-generation hard drives aimed at AI-driven data growth.
- John Morris, Seagate’s chief technology officer, said the investment addresses evolving AI data needs by enabling storage solutions engineered for capacity, reliability, and scale.
- The investment will reinforce Seagate’s innovation leadership, expand local supply chains, and boost Northern Ireland’s economy despite prior workforce reductions of nearly 300 jobs through voluntary redundancy.
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