While the energy use of the growing data centre sector has made headlines in Ireland for several years now – culminating in widespread reporting last year as it reached 21 per cent of all electricity use in Ireland – the EU is now starting to catch up on the concerns raised here.  A paper released by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission last February which reviewed existing literature and public data sources estimated that the EU-wide industry consumes between 1.8 and 2.6 per cent of the entire energy use in the bloc. The EU estimates it will reach…

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