Michael Beagan
Managing Director of TES Power, a Northern Ireland-based critical power and switchgear specialist serving the data centre market, who appeared on the Inside Data Centre Podcast.
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Oct 9, 2026
Rory FlashmanHOST
You know, like, why has certainly from your point of view, Northern Ireland become a major export of, of AI skills and more importantly, you know, power technology?
Michael BeaganGUEST
Uh, we have the Windsor, uh, framework agreement in place, which actually allows us to actually feed both the European single market and the UK, so that has been a massive advantage.
Michael BeaganGUEST
But traditionally and historically, Northern Ireland has a heavy industrial base.
Michael BeaganGUEST
There's lots of skills there, and there's lots of companies that are capitalizing on those skills.
Michael BeaganGUEST
Now, the other question there that you mentioned about, you know, we definitely need more and more people.
Michael BeaganGUEST
This is true, so we don't expect those people to actually come from anywhere else.
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Manesh PatelGUEST
And it's not just a concept that gets built and you can't do anything with it.