Un data center di Dublino consuma 10 volte l’elettricità di un vicino stabilimento farmaceutico che impiega 2.000 persone
https://www.irishtimes.com/environment/2026/01/15/single-data-centre-comsumes-10-times-electricity-of-nearby-pharma-plant-employing-2000/
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*A single data centre in west Dublin consumes 10 times the electricity of a nearby pharmaceutical plant employing 2,000 people, equivalent to enough power for 200,000 homes, according to an internal Government document.*
Until people don’t want smart devices then this will always be the case
How many people are employed by the data centre?
Then I guess how much tax revenue comes from both?
Definitely think there’s a case for restricting these but the whole picture is needed.
Data centres should pay the electricity bill for the entire country. Yeah I know that’s unreasonable but fuck those guys.
And, the DC would also provide a lot of jobs and generate a lot of income
And more have just bee signed off on – https://www.thejournal.ie/data-centres-climate-change-6924426-Jan2026/
Thank christ too, my electricity bills are not high enough already. I really just cannot wait to subsidise their rates even further.
The state will eventually end up paying for all these and they will employ f all people as they’re all automated.
One thing this analysis leaves out that the electricity industry itself creates a couple of jobs per megawatt of demand, even though those jobs aren’t concentrated at the plant itself. Electricity is an industry in its own right.
This is also the future of industry: highly capital intensive, energy intensive, low labour automation. it’s just the way things are going. It actually suits Ireland because of our limited population and political/economic stability.
Don’t they use a shocking amount of water as wel.
They’re also often built in prime serviced industrial estate locations like Grange Castle, which were planned to host pharma and biotech that would employ thousands
The price of having all the tech companies here and all the tax they pay?
Trump is going to force US data centres to pay for their own power to reduce the impact on retail users. Microsoft is reassessing its strategy amid power cost concerns. Big tech wants society to subsidize the energy costs of its tech infrastructure. No doubt FFG will be more than willing to throw the Irish consumers under the bus.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-revise-data-center-operations-174121809.html
DaY TuK R Jobsss…
Stats for those interested. Ireland has between 80-90 data centres and the large ones employ directly 200-300 employees.
In total the sector directly employs about 16,000 people in Ireland.
If only if we had some way to build renewable energy projects not mired in years of NIMBY delays.
And when the IP generated by a tech company sits in an Irish data centre it adds to the strength of their tax base in Ireland….
Imo there is a pretty obvious solution that FF and FG won’t consider, because it would harm the profits of their tech overlords:
Only grant planning permission if at least 110% of energy needs are met by on-site or nearby additional renewable energy capacity.
That means that private money would be used to increase renewable capacity, instead of data centres being a drain on the grid (pushing up our bills), as is currently the case.
Currently, plans are for permission to be granted if at least 70% of capacity is gotten from additional renewable energy, but that still causes data centres to be a drain on our energy system.
Asking how many people are employed by a data center is a bit like asking how many people are employed by a road
It’s infrastructure
The real question is how many jobs are enabled by the infrastructure existing.
Are we aiming for a jobs per kWh ratio before an industry can operate here?
The problem isn’t the data centres.
Don’t underestimate what they do in terms of hardware, software and tax revenue, coupled with keeping our name on the tech map.
The problem is the lack of a government driven technical solution to their energy demands.
If we think that if every data centre disappeared in the morning would lead to an improvement in our nett family surplus of money at end of month, we are wrong.
Anyhow, with the perfect ambient temperature available, once they get Greenland, it’ll be sorted.
Yeah, but only one between the two of them can generate a funny image of Garfield blowing a unicorn in outer space. I ask you, which is more beneficial to humanity?
So this is why our electricity bills are so high in Ireland, hmmm no wonder Ireland won’t meet it’s renewable energy goals.