Data Centres in Ireland Consume 18% of Electricity, Equivalent to Urban Homes

📆 04/04/2024 02:38:00
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Data centres in Ireland consumed 18% of the country's electricity in 2022, which is as much as all urban homes combined. This makes Ireland an outlier in terms of energy consumption. The Extinction Rebellion Ireland protested outside the Data Centres Ireland Exhibition and Conference in Dublin. The increasing energy consumption, especially due to activities like cryptocurrency transactions, indicates that humanity's energy consumption habits are not decreasing.

Eighteen per cent of Irish electricity was consumed by data centres in 2022, as much as all urban homes, making the country an outlier. Extinction Rebellion Ireland protesting outside the Data Centres Ireland Exhibition and Conference at the RDS, Dublin, in November. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins. Humanity’s knack for finding new ways to consume energy is not showing any sign of abating.

Take cryptocurrency: a single bitcoin transaction uses more electricity than a US household does in a month

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