Official figures showed data centres accounted for 14% of all electricity demand in the Republic last year with Eirgrid estimating they could account for 29% by 2028. Through the use of an innovative cooling solution, Amazon said the two new data centres would use as little as 264m³ of water for cooling annually. On data centres, Amazon said it had increased its spend with Irish contractors 14-fold since 2015 to €228m. Amazon said its investment in data centres in Dublin city supported more than 2,300 jobs in 2020 and benefited from €80m in capital expenditure. While the new data centres would have some net impact on the area, council planners ruled they would not have any significant adverse effects either on their own or in combination with existing data centres.

Source: Irish Examiner August 15, 2022 07:03 UTC