Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic -
✍️Caroline O' Doherty
Hannah Daly, professor of sustainable energy at University College Cork, will tell committee members they must carefully consider the scale of that demand and its implications.
Already data centres are using 22 per cent of all electricity in the country – the highest proportion in the world.
#datacentres #electricity
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Westmeath County Council has granted planning permission for a contentious €1 billion data centre campus and solar farm on a 600 acre site in Co Westmeath https://t.co/Wp5WU0ZvXW
The Irish Times naturally doesn't reveal O'Sullivan's affiliation in her anti-neutrality piece today. She's the director of a defence thinktank, Security Ireland. Amongst other things, it advises investors on 'opportunities' to be had in the EU's €800bn arms industry bonanza.
Israel 🇮🇱 murdered at least 14 people across Gaza 🇵🇸 yesterday & injured 30 others
•5 murdered in Khan Yunis 🇵🇸
•8 murdered in Gaza City 🇵🇸
•A fisherman murdered off Deir el-Balah 🇵🇸
There is no ‘ceasefire’
It’s land theft
It’s a racist genocide
Expel 🇮🇱 from the UN now.
Ireland's home game with Israel to move to neutral venue via @RTENews
Absolutely disgraceful and totally against the will of the Irish people. #StopTheGame is not about where but taking a stance against #GazaGenocide
Shame on the @FAI
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🔴 Énorme DINGUERIE encore des États-Unis...
L'arbitre somalien Omar Artan 🇸🇴 s'est vu refuser son entrée aux États-Unis, alors qu'il est sensé officier pendant la Coupe du Monde ! 🙄
Malgré l'aide appuyée de l'ambassade somalienne de Nairobi, qui lui a fourni un PASSEPORT DIPLOMATIQUE, M. Artan a dû faire demi tour à son arrivée aux USA.
On parle d'une personne qui a été élue MEILLEUR ARBITRE AFRICAIN EN 2025 ! 🤦♂️
(@Romain_Molina)
Here's what's actually happening. They're frightened of the United States. They even say so in the Regulatory Impact Analysis recently published by the DFA
Last year The Ditch published the Attorney General's advice to government on the OTB, which made no distinction between goods and services. Rossa Fanning said with a few amendments it could be defended if challenged in Europe, and that changing it would be a 'political choice'.
Spotted at EU Commission HQ today.
EU hosting a "high-level" meeting on antisemitism with a government committing atrocities that has used this term as a slur to attack EU's own member govts incl. Spain & Ireland, as well as UN & ICC, thus completely distorting its meaning.
A quick search seems that there is no mandatory EIA required for data centres, which makes no sense to me. More worrying is that in EU there are moves to fast track developments that could bypass EIA. Anyone who has looked at this in s serious way want to chip in? @LNBDublin
Iran’s Foreign ministry spokesman says Israel has been undermining US-Iran diplomacy from Day One and insists any ceasefire has to include Lebanon. Meanwhile Trump tells media he calls ‘the shots’ not Netanyahu despite the attacks suggesting otherwise.
The European Commission has cautioned Albania against actions that may impact its EU accession path, amid ongoing national protests over a Jared Kushner-linked development project on the country’s southern coast.
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This is the Israeli military justification for attacking a Lebanese army patrol inside Leb territory - ‘the area is an active combat zone, and movement in the area requires coordination with the IDF’ The Israeli military is demanding Leb troops asks its permission to move around its own country 🧵
The Pentagon has raised its assessment of an Israeli espionage threat against the United States to its highest level, according to US media reports citing sources.
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