Opinion: We don’t need fewer data centres. We need more electricity
The Government has no incentive to own up to this significant economic blunder, particularly when it is set against a constant drumbeat of warnings from EirGid, which runs the electricity network, about electricity shortages and blackouts.
The release of the CSO data on data centre power usage coincided with the latest warning from EirGrid. The reason for the warning was lack of wind due to the recent good weather, combined with insufficient conventional capacity to meet the deficit. But somehow data centres emerged as the villains of the piece. No one rushed to their defence.
The relentless courting of international technology and pharmaceutical companies has underpinned economic growth here for decades. Data centres are part of this sector and are seen as a way of anchoring some of these highly mobile companies in Ireland. Paradoxically, they exploit one of our few natural resources — a cool, temperate climate — which makes Irish data centres more energy efficient and cheaper to run than those in countries with more extreme weather.
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