CSO findings come amid an increasingly heated debate about data centres and their energy demands
Used to house the computer storage systems, data centres are expected to account for 27 per cent of all electricity demand by 2028.rose from just 5 per cent in 2015 to 21 per cent last year, according to the Central Statistics Office .
Quarterly metered electricity consumption by data centres increased steadily from 290 Gigawatt hours in the first quarter of 2015 to 1,661 Gigawatt hours in the fourth quarter of 2023, a jump of 473 per cent, the agency said.
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