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“Building more data centres to satisfy the AI bubble makes an energy transition impossible” says PBP EU candidate

“Building more data centres to satisfy the AI bubble makes an energy transition impossible” says PBP EU candidate

“So much work needs to be done to kick our fossil fuel habit... but instead the Irish government continues to roll out the red carpet for the tech industry who aren’t building technologies that actually improve our lives but ones that allow for more entrenched inequality”

Data Centre expansion and LNG construction puts “climate targets impossibly out of reach.”

Data Centre expansion and LNG construction puts “climate targets impossibly out of reach.”

New Fortress Energy, the company behind the plans to build a Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) terminal in Tarbert, has begun distributing leaflets in an attempt to build local support for the construction. The leaflet states “an LNG terminal in Ireland could largely replace gas imports from Britain which in turn

Floating Data Centre a threat to Limerick’s electricity capacity

Floating Data Centre a threat to Limerick’s electricity capacity

Nautilus Data Technologies, which has received a $5 million investment from the Irish Strategic Investment Fund, says it hopes to deploy a new data centre into the river Shannon within the next 18 months. When the data centre is completed it is expected to provide 25 permanent jobs. The sister

Limerick is quickly becoming the pollution capital of Ireland

Limerick is quickly becoming the pollution capital of Ireland

The Shannon LNG planning application to build an LNG terminal, gas burning turbine and data-centre risks making Limerick and the Midwest Ireland's pollution capital, according to Limerick People Before Profit. The party has criticised the plans as “expanding climate damaging industries, at a time when the country has declared a