The precarious nature of the State’s energy supply infrastructure has been long standing even as we handed out data centre permitsBoth Eirgrid and the CRU have singled out the strain placed on supply by data centres at various hearings and in reports. Photograph: Getty ImagesMore evidence of years of disconnected inward investment policy and national energy planning, with prioritisation of corporates over citizens, arrived by careening clown car this week.
The alerts, and the CRU/IDA standoff, foreground once again the continued and risky mismatch between build permissions granted to companies, and available energy supply from a small island nation still reliant on outside energy sources. The system has been under pressure for ages. For years, a growing worry has been the largely unfettered growth of energy-devouring data centres, with their huge electricity needs.
And yet official policy change, such as it is, has come incredibly slowly because, God forbid, we should not keep luring data centres, even though these facilities employ few people directly and, despite industry bluster, only some portion will be true contributors to any wider, jobs-enhancing cloud computing ecosystem.
This week’s energy drama comes less than two weeks after the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Employment issued a “revised”. The document contains a welcome recognition that some limits will need to be placed on data centre expansion, as well as a redirecting of construction away from data centre-swamped Dublin out to the regions.
klillington And yet more data centers are being built or approved to be built. Housing and people are not important, Ireland can live solely on companies - the way the government thinks
There is no energy crisis only housing crisis inflation crisis population crisis food crisis poor governance crisis misuse of power crisis should I go on.. Ireland inflation Leo
Perhaps. But they can pretend it is.
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