I'm down on 1/4 of the electricity in the country going into them and that residential electricity is now under threat of blackouts. If they were doing this right they'd be setting up thier own green power sources rather than throwing the grid responsibility on the state. I know I use them, but like the bank bailout we have no says in the coming negatives for society.Meh. I dunno why everyone is so down on data centres. We kinda need them these days, and Ireland is a good place for them. What would we do if the data centre that housed thumped went offline? Well???
I also read in the same sitting that if every data centre planned gets built, the load is around 3000MW which is coming closer to doubling the national demand, with no plans on how to generate that.
Irish consumers paying for western world toys, financially, societally and environmentaly.