Data centers now consume 21% of all the electricity in Ireland, more than all its urban homes. 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
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