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Ireland: Data centres now consuming more electricity than all rural homes (irishtimes.com)
15 points by halfdaft 1514 days ago
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Important to note, Ireland's grid is fairly carbon intensive:

https://app.electricitymap.org/zone/IE?wind=false&solar=fals...

Side note: I’m tired of headlines just comparing numbers to arbitrary groups of things, just to approximately match the size.

“X consumes as much as A (and B, C, D as time progresses).”