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Exactly. Furthermore, the fine article mentions 21% going to datacenters (of which, which fraction might be off-shoreable anyway?), and 18% to homes. Okay, tha

by creer 2y ago

Exactly. Furthermore, the fine article mentions 21% going to datacenters (of which, which fraction might be off-shoreable anyway?), and 18% to homes. Okay, that leaves 61% going to what? Which other industry uses have been going up or down? Then compounded by "If we already had lots of wind and lots of solar, it wouldn’t be a problem", which, as far as datacenters go probably misses the need for storage. What this is seems more of a meme article, linking presumably evil datacenters, with climate change, with "policy of low corporate taxation."

lawlessone 2y ago
>Okay, that leaves 61% going to what? Commercial maybe? I used to work in a Lidl and it was mentioned when they started automating their store lights inside and outside to turn off at night that it was taking a large load of the grid. Lot's offices, SME's etc? Warehouses? Not sure if they count as industrial or not.
- creer 2y ago
  Of course. And metals smelters, and street lighting. Whatever. The point was that the fine article didn't care about that because it was a political hatchet job, rather than informing on how or why electric power is used in Ireland.