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Driving gas demand in the wrong direction
Data centres are forecast to use a staggering 30% of Ireland’s electricity by 2030. If this is allowed to happen it would create additional need for fossil gas generation. Data centres are also being used as justification for building new fossil fuel infrastructure, such as climate-wrecking LNG import terminals.
Data centres now use more than 20% of the nation's total electricity - that’s more electricity than all the urban homes in the country combined and twice as much as all rural households. This is forecast to grow to a staggering 30% by 2030 - data centres are predicted to consume almost one third of Ireland’s grid power. If this is allowed to happen it would create additional need for fossil fuel generation, particularly gas generation.
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