We live in a time where our global interconnectivity would have been the stuff of science fiction when Jackson made Threads. Amazon Web Services’ data centres in UAE were struck on Monday by what were, at the time, referred to as objects. Ireland is a critical node in the global data centre network, particularly with regard to users in the European Union. Our weather fits in the Goldilocks zone of what is needed to optimally run data centres. Photograph: Fadel Senna/AFP via Getty ImagesThe bar to physically damaging a data centre to a point of inoperability is much lower.

Source: The Irish Times March 05, 2026 07:25 UTC