Electricity use by data centres increased by almost a third last year alone as the sector expanded and activity increased. The 31pc increase in demand in 2022 is just the latest in a series of annual increases which has seen the sector’s energy usage soar by 400pc in the last seven years. The extraordinary growth…
ELECTRICITY CONSUMPTION BY data centres has more than doubled since 2015, new figures from the Central Statistics Office show. Between 2015 and 2020, data centres’ consumption of electricity in Ireland increased by 144%. Additionally, the proportion of Ireland’s total metered electricity used by data centres more than doubled between 2015 and 2020, rising from 5%…
This time it’s around the explosion in data and as much about policy as technology, with wide-ranging skills requirements that we need to put in place to maximise the opportunity it presents. Get it right and we will be at the centre of the global data ecosystem that is going to grow even more significantly…