Data centers now consume 21% of all the electricity in Ireland, more than all the homes in its cities and towns combined. Cloud providers still want more.
This drive for ever-increasing computation serves no one but the bottom lines of major tech companies. It must be stopped.
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the Guardian
Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets