Le famiglie pagano il doppio per l’elettricità rispetto ai data center

Of course we are!

In other not surprising news. It is raining today in Ireland

Have come to the conclusion that the Government hates us in this country. Can’t get a house or rent a house for love or reasonable money, can’t depend on public transport, health services in long term freefall, and then if you do manage to have a house you are paying crazy money for utilities. It’s a constant wonder to me how we don’t have more people leaving the country for better options.

Can’t read the article, but I’d have assumed the biggest component of that is DCs don’t really have peaks/troughs during the day and benefit from consumption of electricity at night far more than households and the predictability of demand means they can lock in agreed rates are a discount leading to this comparison. There’s also the new requirement they get like 80% of their power from renewables so a bunch are funding wind/solar contracts which are obviously cheaper since renewables are cheaper.

Like, my home power costs are now about 30% lower thanks to the solar panels on my roof – for anyone with a home of their own, I cannot stress this enough – Get solar panels on your home and fund it with a 7 year loan, your monthly savings basically pay for the loan repayments each month, but when the loan ends, you’ll still have the panels and mine have a 25 year warranty and a forecast 80% efficiency after 30 years. It’s an absolute no brainer unless your roof is like, one sided and only faces North or something like that.

“Small Households subsidising multi billion euro businesses” – Fixed that headline

This article is a summary video. The main story there if you have access:
[https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/its-a-slap-in-the-face-irish-households-are-paying-twice-as-much-for-electricity-as-data-centres/a1352574572.html](https://www.independent.ie/business/personal-finance/its-a-slap-in-the-face-irish-households-are-paying-twice-as-much-for-electricity-as-data-centres/a1352574572.html)
*Ireland has some of the most expensive electricity in the Western world.*
*The Eurostat figures reveal that households are paying an average of 36.8c per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for electricity. Households pay 7.6c per kWh for their network charges. But big energy users, such as data centres, are paying just 19.1c per kWh for their electricity supply, and just 0.7c per kWh in network charges.*
*Data centres accounted for 22pc of electricity usage in Ireland in 2024.*

There’s probably a few other factors at play here. Some that come to mind would be : a bulk discount for large users; they import off the MV network not the LV and have their own substations which they must maintain; Have to do power correction; more stringent regulations on back up capability

I say it again and again, but the government doesn’t care.

It’s an abusive relationship. They treat us like shite until the election, and we think they ll get better, but they don’t.

I’m so fed up