TheJournal.ie: Google’s planned data centre to contribute over 220,000 tonnes of carbon emissions a year in the short term

11 comments

1. What charges will we be subjected to to account for this?

2. Just as we get our carbon emissions to the lowest they’ve been in three decades

3. Wouldn’t it make more sense to build apartments and houses instead?

4. Data Centres are necessary and have to go somewhere.

   Put down your phone if you’re concerned.

5. Ya but maps is class to be fair.

6. Bu’ whaddabou’de houses for de Irish

7. Quite often renewable energy projects are funded solely by the likes of Google/Microsoft/Amazon and companies who build wind and solar projects:

   https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/google-signs-58mw-solar-ppa-in-ireland/
   https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2022/11/23/microsoft-renewable-contracts-to-contribute-almost-30-of-power-purchase-target/

   It’s often that instead of getting subsidies from DECC, the subsidies directly come from the data centres themselves.

8. With the rise of AI data center power consumption is only going to get worse.

9. They pay the electricity but they wont be contributing to the estimated billions of carbon emissions fines I believe.
   https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/climate-crisis/2024/05/21/coalition-forced-to-adopt-new-measures-to-close-emissions-gap-and-avoid-fine-costing-billions/

10. Climate scam

11. Is there a reason why these can’t be build on un-arable land out west or in the midlands instead of city sites or prime agricultural land?

    Feels like a bit of waste of space in terms of land usage.