The expansion of data centres drained \u20ac715m from the economy between 2015 and 2023.<\/p>\n
New research from Friends of the Earth and Beyond Fossil Fuels says this added the equivalent of an average \u20ac360 to household electricity bills.<\/p>\n
Data Centres Campaign Lead with Friends of the Earth, Rosi Leonard says another \u20ac1.6b could be lost over the next decade if current policies continue\u2026<\/p>\n
https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/NEWSTALK202605280306-1.wav<\/a><\/p>\n Aont\u00fa TD for Mayo Paul Lawless raised the issue with T\u00e1naiste and Minster for Finance Simon Harris in the D\u00e1il today during Leaders Questions\u2026<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DATAPAUL.wav<\/a><\/p>\n However, Simon Harris said that the economic benefits of data centres was being ignored\u2026<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/DATAHARRIS.wav<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The expansion of data centres drained \u20ac715m from the economy between 2015 and 2023. New research from Friends…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,113,61,60],"class_list":["post-472287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472287","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=472287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}