Data centres now consuming more electricity than rural homes

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  1. Soooo, they are bringing money into the country, paying taxes, contributing to paying for services like social welfare and the state pensions

  2. I love the way the papers have spun things the last while, saying “rural homes” as if rural homes are by different to urban homes.

    Also when the “turf war” was going last week every picture used seemed to be an auld lad cutting by hand, not a big diesel machine that does basically all the cutting these days.
    It’s a click bait headline that the rural independents will use to claim that nobody in rural Ireland should have to make any changes to their lifestyle

  3. Well get on building more green energy for Ireland. We have plenty of wind, wave and hydro potential. But the government are not thinking past the next election.

  4. Taking shorter showers seems to be having its’ effect.

    Now what? Raise the prices for consumers again!

  5. Is this actually a problem? Kind of an abstract comparison.

    They still only use 14%, how much capacity do we have in the network?

    As we incorporate more renewables the whole network turns more green and the electricity that they use too.

    Plus there’s the district heating systems being introduced to make use of all the waste heat.

  6. what’s the moan here? They were given planning permission and hooked up to the grid. Is this a shock or something? Blaming data centers for a lack of planning is a cheap lie.

  7. The scapegoating of data centres due to the government’s ineptitude on energy policy is idiotic, they need to be somewhere, so energy will be used somewhere, so no real global warming argument.

    Secondly, they provide many high-tech, high-paying jobs and associated education incentives.

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    The ‘blame data centres’ narrative tickles my pickle

  8. what annoys me about all this is that these places generate huge amounts of heat that uses more electricity to cool it. why are they not built beside hospitals, nursing homes or purpose built housing estates. all that heat could easily heat all these building for way less than it would cost to cool the data center and the building would get ‘free’ heat or at least ‘green’ heat

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