Caroline O'Doherty

In the meantime, we have an awful lot of onshore wind farms and we're going to need quite a lot more.

And we also, a lot of the ones that are there sort of 25, 30 years are coming to end of life and they're going to have to be repowered.

So there's a lot of work to be done on onshore wind at the minute and also solar.

And what's happening is it's beginning to be like,

There's been a generally good acceptance among communities for wind farms.

They may not always like the fact that they're there, but there's an acceptance where we need clean energy.

And solar farms now are certainly expanding a lot faster than maybe anticipated.

There is, you can sense and you can see it, sort of a groundswell of objections rising in communities saying, hey, hang on a second, we have enough of these renewable energy.

And by the way, do we understand this correctly, that really and truly this particular wind farm is actually being sponsored by a data centre because they're going to need to supply energy.

so much of their energy from renewables.

So you'll have the data centres concentrated in urban areas.

And at the moment, it's partly all Dublin and Meath, but a wind farm in Tipperary.

And that's how the balance will be.

The data centre will be able to say, we are meeting 80% of our needs on a wind farm.

It's not coming directly to us, but it's feeding into the electricity network.

So that's acceptable.

But it's a community in Tipperary that's going to be looking at the wind farm.

That's a tricky one because, you know, it takes a lot to sort of sell the idea of getting wind, you know, of getting renewable energy infrastructure into communities.

And the last thing you need is for them to believe, well, it's not for us anyway.

It's for a data centre somewhere else.