Amazon.com to locate customer support centre in Ireland?

Thats whats on the front page of the business suplement of the Irish Times. It seems that Amazon where in Dublin last week touring several data centres. It seems that two centres could be established to provide customer support, one in Dublin and the other in Cork. Over 200 staff would be employed.

I remember a few years ago during the .com boom the discussion over amazon and the fact that it was making losses. Well at this stage it seems to have paid off, in the first quarter of 2004 it generated1.53 billion US dollars sales and profits of $111 million.