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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lisa O'Carroll in Dublin

AI-fuelled cloud storage boom threatens Irish climate targets, report warns

Illuminated computer equipment in server room (not necessarily in Ireland)
Datacentres in Ireland are using the same amount of energy as the country is creating in windpower, experts say. Photograph: Erik Isakson/Getty Images

Ireland has allowed itself to become a “data dumping ground” for big technology companies such as Amazon and Meta which are monopolising clean energy generation for their datacentres, campaigners claim.

They say the growth of the cloud storage sector in Ireland is so rapid it is threatening the country’s legally binding decarbonisation commitments.

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