The disconnect between the Government’s commitment to the digital economy and Ireland’s climate action targets, combined with a failure to bring new electricity generation on stream, means that Ireland is “currently closed for business”.  That’s the stark message that was delivered by Mark Foley, the chief executive of Eirgrid, who gave evidence to the Oireachtas Committee on Environment and Climate Change, in an occasionally heated session last week. Foley said the grid operator had not connected a single data centre, or any other large energy user, in the last two years, as a result of the gap between government policy…

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