Earlier this week, the state development agency, IDA Ireland, clashed with the Commission for Regulation of Utilities over moves to impose penalty tariffs on big business in order to stop the threat of winter blackouts. The CRU wants to impose “peak tariffs” on large industrial consumers, something the IDA is against. Plus, as Thomas reported on Monday, EirGrid is now warning that the constraints imposed on new data centre projects in the capital are likely to remain in the long term. Quite simply, the controversial issue of data centres is not going away any time soon. As Stephen has written…

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