Paris MarxJul 24, 2024

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.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/jul/23/ireland-datacentres-overtake-electricity-use-of-all-homes-combined-figures-show

#tech #ai #datacenters #ireland #energy

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

The Guardian
Show threadAlonJul 24, 2024
@parismarx That's about in line with the proportion of Irish GDP that's offshore tech corporate profits, so it just about checks out. Ireland can choose at any point to develop an economy based on things other than international tax dodging.
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@Alon @parismarx you can also read the statistics as a mere fifth of electrical generation capacity of one small eu nation is powering large part of the entire eu infrastructure, but that doesn't have that proper green nimbywash vibe
Jul 24, 2024 at 7:05pmWeb