Invest: Digital and AI Infrastructure for a Digital Ireland

This is a plain text summary of Chapter 4 of the "Digital Ireland – Connecting our People, Securing our Future" report. Read the full report.

We are committed to investing in building secure, resilient and future-proofed digital and AI infrastructure to grow and support Irish enterprise, to enhance quality of life in Ireland, to support Ireland as a location for investment and to enable world-leading RD&I in Ireland.

We will achieve this by:

• Delivering on our connectivity targets, via the rollout of the National Broadband Plan; supporting the transition to faster, full-fibre broadband including 100% national coverage; addressing mobile connectivity challenges in rural areas; delivering on 5G targets by 2030; ensuring a fit-for-purpose fibre backbone infrastructure; and strengthening Ireland’s international connectivity.
• Ensuring the security and resilience of our digital infrastructure across our networks and sub-sea cable infrastructure, as well as our preparedness and emergency response capacity.
• Supporting the development and adoption of transformative digital infrastructure technologies through our commitment to support the sustained growth of our national Advanced Computing infrastructure; Ireland’s new AI Factory Antenna, and procurement of the CASPIr supercomputer; as well as supporting trials of new satellite technologies; and continuing to invest in the development of secure quantum communication network infrastructure.