‘Data centres no longer need to be concentrated around Dublin’ but should be closer to sources of renewable energy, especially offshore wind
Power Capital Renewable Energy executives the announcement in September 2023 of the solar energy company's partnership with Google Ireland to provide green electricity to the technology company to help power their data centres and operations in Ireland.
The Minister strongly disagreed with former EirGrid chief executive Mark Foley, who believed gas-fired power generation could meet escalating data centre demand. Mr Ryan also rejected his view that if Ireland does not have healthy demand growth for electricity, offshore wind farms will not be “financeable”.
“So we immediately said, put the alarm bells on. We have to be careful here because we can’t give false promises. We can’t just promise we can get new connections.” But he rejected Mr Foley’s view “that we could perhaps use gas-fired generation to run data centres so you could still increase capacity, but you wouldn’t necessarily have to the electricity grid and the renewables to support that to make it low carbon”.
Mr Ryan highlighted Bord na Móna’s building of an energy park in the midlands “where you put renewables, storage, other industrial processing together to take the waste heat. This was mentioned at the IEA as a leading example where everyone needs to go”.
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