Residents in a town fear for their health after its council approved a new data centre with a 120 megawatt fossil fuel gas plant.
EirGrid has already warned how data centres, which store your every click in the all-knowing “cloud”, could be using a third of Ireland’s electricity by 2030.
Despite calls for a moratorium on the monoliths dotted across the country, last month the government approved further data industry development in the guise of “strategic economic infrastructure”.
