Last year data centres consumed almost twice as much power as all rural dwellings combined.
DATA CENTTRES IN Ireland consumed 31% more electricity in 2022 than in the previous year, according to figures released by the Central Statistics Office.
Ireland’s data centres are mostly owned by US tech companies such as Amazon, Google and Microsoft and since 2015 the amount of power used by the industry has increased by 400%, according to the CSO report.The number of data centres in Ireland is not exactly huge, says Deane, but the impact they have on the energy grid is enormous.
The report stated that all sectors of the economy are set to exceed their emission ceilings and the increasing electricity consumption in the figures released by the CSO are certainly emblematic of that trend. “Ireland really bucks the trend here right across Europe. We’re one of the very few countries to grow our energy demand for electricity at a time of an energy crisis when we should reduce it.”
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