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Energy regulator likely to ban ‘islanded’ data centres

Environment minister says connection of fully gas-powered data centres to gas grid is against national climate policy

Louth environmental group joins chorus of objections to Amazon plans for three new data centres in Dublin

Group have appealed to An Bord Pleanála against the decision to grant the project planning permission

Simon Coveney to deliver keynote address at DataCentres Ireland event

Largest gathering of those involved in sector will take place in late November

Amazon subsidiary granted planning permission for three Dublin data centres despite environmentalists’ objections

Fingal council granted permission on basis that data consumed by centres must be matched with domestically generated renewable energy

Multinationals redirecting digital services due to limited power capacity in Dublin - Equinix

US data centre developer made the claim in planning appeal for Clondalkin gas powered data centre

Council refuses Equinix application to construct gas-powered data centre on south Dublin site

Application failed to show proposed development has appropriate grid connection, council says

Microsoft secures planning for €100m gas plant to power data centre

Tech giant in the final stages of building 170-megawatt back-up facility in case of restricted national grid electricity supply

Periclase owners to redevelop site into net-zero business campus

Multimillion-euro joint venture between Meridiam and Gyrogy aims to attract industrial large energy users

Taoiseach defends data centres as Social Democrats question climate ambitions

Holly Cairns, Social Democrats leader, says the country is ‘running to stand still in decarbonising our energy system’

Data centre power consumption up 31% year on year

The data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO) also showed a 400 per cent increase between 2015 and 2022

ESB error led to Meta being undercharged for 18 months

Tech giant has not been fully charged for use of millions of euro-worth of power at Clonee data centre due to substation technical fault

Irish data centre giants will have to publish energy performance details under new EU law

Companies that run data centres will have to report their energy use, according to a document prepared for Simon Coveney ahead of meeting with Microsoft, Google and Amazon

Data centres have enough on-site power to meet energy needs of entire country

analysis shows extent of the power generation capacity of Microsoft, Amazon, Google and other data centre operators

Meta seeks use of back-up generators for data centres in event of energy emergency

Tech firm’s application would allow it to run generators for up to 500 hours every year in the event of a loss of supply from the country’s energy system

Data centre giants warn minister over delays to back-up energy permits

Microsoft, Amazon and Google seek to expedite applications to EPA for industrial emissions licences needed to ease any future power emergencies

Government department seeks data centre space no more than ‘an hour’s drive from Dublin 2’

There has been a moratorium on the development of new data centres in the greater Dublin area since last year

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Microsoft in new bid for fossil fuel licences to power Dublin data centres

Tech giant has lodged two new applications for licences to run diesel generators at south Dublin data centre campus – separate from its plan to build a private gas plant at the same location

One third of emergency power generation at risk from outdated infrastructure

Eirgrid and ESB look at alternatives as substation at Shannonbridge power plant found to be in significant disrepair

Dublin ban sees 21 new data centres planned outside city

Energy and technology companies are now looking to build data centres beyond the greater Dublin area following the moratorium on new developments there due to constraints on the energy grid