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Episode: Ireland struggles to manage power for its many data centers
Description: For years, Ireland has been embracing major U.S. tech giants, building data centers that consume massive amounts of power. But demands on the national grid have threatened blackouts, and experts and activists are trying to find an ecological compromise.
The International Energy Agency expects the data centers will consume one-third of Ireland’s electricity by 2026—a far greater burden than anywhere else in Europe.
Fears of rolling blackouts led Ireland’s grid operator to place an unofficial moratorium on new data centers near Dublin until 2028.
Darragh Adelaide, a South Dublin County Council member, expresses the strains the data centers are pl...