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Data centres use almost a fifth of Irish electricity

2023-06-12 22:27
The amount of electricity being used by data centres in Ireland has risen by 400% since 2015.
Data centres use almost a fifth of Irish electricity

Data centres accounted for almost a fifth of all electricity used in the Republic of Ireland in 2022, official data suggests.

That was as much as was used by all households in the country’s urban areas.

Data centres are effectively warehouses full of computer servers which are central to...