{"id":470787,"date":"2026-05-28T05:36:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470787\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T05:36:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T05:36:07","slug":"irelands-data-centre-energy-drain-how-big-tech-added-e1-4bn-to-household-electricity-bills-the-journal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/470787\/","title":{"rendered":"Ireland&#039;s data centre energy drain: How Big Tech added \u20ac1.4bn to household electricity bills &#8211; The Journal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMif0FVX3lxTFBlSFpJV0ZwRHN3dDM4Qm9RR1B1MllwSVlxYldmallwNnIxSHVIWnZIbHFnZEtvN1NBNVdkcGlvaFF3U29zQU8xV1ptOERxLTJyYU15R2FxYkZYYVIxZkxYMlZ6bUZMTVRBeW9uSkFMN2lYNVc2dWRZMDRQbXMtMjQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ireland&#8217;s data centre energy drain: How Big Tech added \u20ac1.4bn to household electricity bills<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Journal<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMingFBVV95cUxQdlRhMUd3LTdhdzlIVWY5VE4zZjFCSFc5ZU9ST3lHTEoyWG0yQUlGOE43TmpyZUtOMzROcjBZLVo5cUJ2OVlIZm9LNXRCbFVseGN1M1dHZ2x5bWQ0YlFhWm5FcE1weDloS296WlpZTXpfWm56VzNCb01mLVNaYU1DUVotSnFkLUR5RWNUTklWU2lBcmR1Y2swOHdlTjc0Zw?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data centre demands vs energy conservation<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMid0FVX3lxTE9sVDFKNTdRZWt2MXRGQkpZOU56dkFpRjRhM2VVRXk1emtvdFRGZnRlejdSakFpakV6NEFGajVnbjdBRkRFMlNITWdHQktXTU1OQ2ROTmFTRlZEUFg1MFMyaG45UW5LeWY0Q2sybk9Ja3M4N3g3MjRz?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Irish data centres &#8216;demonised&#8217; despite their &#8216;critical role&#8217; in ICT sector<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Examiner<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMirwFBVV95cUxOenBIc2xaUElmYjFSSGl3Y0RZeVJMOHprTGpPRHM4Ukt6akZPVzlIcHlsU0dFVUpPVEJKd3ZqQnlSNGhNTEJhTERTVmJ0RTh4dFFXcURKRThPeC13YlZIT1lTLWVYUlM4dGdadmVOeVRvZzJPb3V3VDE0U1ZfcXB1MDVfSUY4ZGVCa25HVy12OWdvQWlTMTdaazM0M3d3YmpZWTNUVjNidk1ycl9wbnR3?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Data centre development to be slashed<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;Irish Independent<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiwgFBVV95cUxPR2ozak5HbUNiX1dsSGprdE9hMHBnTjZ0WU14eEh0VXloWGtMbk5sczlpNVlIVjFvVUtmWUN6REpOUTJnNkJYSVlVaTExX3dSOW1UZXlkRUt1Y1hpTlBDbURnS1c4RmhGZnlScG9rNTZ2OXlRRlBFd05NSENXZkJWeGlMWDZyWm5mRm5OVUhWR1hrQXBQMW56RElGNHJIZnEwUVM4S3I0UGRjQW1LamRtY1MxbG80LUVVTVRXSzQzU0ktUQ?oc=5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Failure to attract data centres \u2018a threat to corporation tax revenues\u2019<\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;The Irish Times<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ireland&#8217;s data centre energy drain: How Big Tech added \u20ac1.4bn to household electricity bills&nbsp;&nbsp;The JournalData centre demands vs&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":470788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,3229,33557,203400,5691,61,60,203401,203402,124448,387,3187],"class_list":["post-470787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-climate","tag-column","tag-data-centre-construction","tag-data-centres","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-ireland-climate-targets","tag-irish-state","tag-new-research","tag-opinion","tag-voices"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=470787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/470787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/470788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=470787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=470787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=470787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}