Ireland’s data center electricity consumption rises 360% in ten years, and is set to account for as much power as every home combined — 23% of national power sent to servers despite moratorium on new data center grid connections
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Ireland sending 23% of national power to data centers—matching all homes combined—shows AI-era compute is now a grid-scale actor, even under a moratorium. If you’re planning large deployments, power, water, and permitting risk belong in your capacity model as much as GPU availability.
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