Caroline O'Doherty

It's so hard to pin down, but yes, I've heard that figure.

And then you'll hear another figure that, you know, in terms of direct employees, it's as low as 4,000.

It's a very hard thing because obviously there are jobs in businesses, you know, far away from a data centre that are almost entirely about data processing.

So they rely on the data centre.

So having to, trying to work out exactly how many jobs, you know, it's, the jobs are not massive.

It's absolutely, you know, but the government will argue they're essential.

Yeah, I mean, we tend to think of the big, I suppose, data centre hubs in the world would be the US and China.

And they have some absolutely massive campuses of data centres.

But when you take the energy use as a percentage of their national energy use, it's as low as like between one and four percent.

And here we are with 21% and scheduled to rise to 30%, you know, within a few years.

So we are, we don't, you know, they have more data centres, they have bigger data centres, but they're vastly bigger countries.

So yeah, as a percentage of the activity in Ireland, yeah, we're a huge outlier.