Dee Ryan
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92 appearances
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 17 Jul
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But what I would say is, as Geraint's host might ban this week, is to ensure that we're conserving reasonable use of water.
People aren't banned from using water in their homes.
They can still have their showers and use it in their private homes.
just excessive use of it with a hose pipe in the garden or washing their cars is being prohibitive and we have to do that to ensure that there's enough for personal use and for business use and data centres by extension are a critical part of our economic infrastructure in this country and so we do need it for that also.
point like you're saying Dee that they're part of our economical structure a lot of people would question that and say well why there's not a huge amount of jobs and there's a drain on so many of our resources which needs so much attention and we hear that we hear that criticism regularly about data centres but it fails to take into account that while the numbers in direct employment may be low it supports a huge proportion of our tech sector and our foreign direct investment which contributes to our income tax receipts and contributes to our corporation tax receipts so it
It is a critical component of any modern economy.
And both in terms of water and energy use, you know, Minister O'Brien has taken this very seriously.
There's a large energy users action plan on how we can support or require data centres to do more.
And undoubtedly, they do have to step up and do more.
They're now required to produce 80% of their electricity renewably.
And in my view, we should be thinking strategically about where we locate them.
For example, closer to our natural renewable energy resources off our West Coast and closer to places... We also have to make sure that that then doesn't become a two-tiered system, that they have their own
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