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Data Centres – Energy Suckers: Us or Them?

At present in Ireland there are 53 operating data centres – 8 more are under construction with 26 having received planning permission. 

Ireland is a prime location for these centres: we are in the E.U., we have a highly skilled young workforce and a climate suited to data centres (our cool temperate climate is ideal in reducing running costs as the heat-generating computers need to be kept cool).

Dublin is reaching its full capacity of data centres so there is opportunity for other cities now to attract these centres. Tiktok, with their €420 million data centre investment, Google, Facebook, Amazon; they have all set up shop in Ireland.

I myself am reliant on the internet for work and use these data centres – this I am fully aware of. Also, Ireland is in need of job creation and investment post-pandemic, so is this not a Win-Win? What’s the issue?

Well…. A report by Eirgrid has shown that the demands in electricity are due to data centres: in order to meet the vast electricity nee...

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