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The “booming” demand for new data centres is a clear threat to Ireland’s climate targets, a...

The “booming” demand for new data centres is a clear threat to Ireland’s climate targets, a new report by UCC has found.

but Professor Daly said they would have declined much more significantly were it not for the expansion of data centres. “What is clear is that the rise in electricity demand and natural gas consumption is threatening our carbon budgets that we’ve all agreed on.”While the expansion of data centres worries climate activists, Mike Beary, chair of the UCD Governing Authority, said they are a necessary part of any modern economy.

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