Ireland's Data Centre Boom Fuels Growth but Exposes an Energy Grid on the Brink

New York Governor Kathy Hochul just imposed a one-year construction moratorium on data centres using 50 megawatts or more — and that's put Ireland's own data centre boom squarely in the spotlight. Dublin is Europe's second-largest data centre market behind London, with 1,150 megawatts in operation across 129 data centres, 97 of them clustered around the capital. Friends of the Earth says a ban should be the "bare minimum." The reason? Ireland's data centres consume roughly...