Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined
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Statistics raise concerns that rise in demand for data processing driven by AI could derail climate targets
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I have had this argument with my politically minded friends. These are not all that bad. Ireland has an ever increasing percentage of renewables, they provide a high standard of living for their employees and the demand exists regardless of where we put them.

Some moved to block these, and so they would exist somewhere else. The only difference would be that place might have less renewables and Ireland loses opportunity for high income positions.

Can we just cancel the whole “ai” thing? It was fun for a bit, now it’s just problems.

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Business & Industry uses over 75% of electricity in Ireland. Residential energy usage really is not that much, in any country in the world.

Same with CO2, almost all of it is created by industries.

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Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ’ almost all ’ is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don’t forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).

The future is in cold storage!

Hello AI, what do you know about planting tomatoes?

Yes, certainly!..you will find everything we know here 10.2.456 at your local SD card library.

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Every time there is a power shortage, they tell residential customers they are being wastrels and should turn their lights off…

Same for water.

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