Inside Business with Ciaran Hancock

‘You can’t decarbonize without digitization, you can’t increase digitization without data centres’

14 Jun 2023

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With the latest CSO figures pointing to data centres in the Republic using as much electricity as urban households last year despite an effective moratorium on new connections to the grid in the Greater Dublin Area, does the proliferation of data centres here in recent times represent a real threat to our carbon emissions goals?Ciaran Hancock is joined by Irish Times Business Reporter Ian Curran to talks us through what those latest CSO figures mean, while Director of Cloud Infrastructure Ireland, Michael McCarthy and Energy Researcher at UCC, Paul Deane, give the pros and cons of so many data centres setting up here. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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‘You can’t decarbonize without digitization, you can’t increase digitization without data centres’

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