Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I note the figure of 637.

I have a comment to make on the district heating scheme. Dr. Byrne spoke about the importance of data centres and how they could play a large part in the scheme. Data centres will account for 30% of our electricity use by 2030 so they are a major part of the jigsaw. I found it really interesting in his district heating report that Dr. Byrne did not know when trying to model it where they were, how much energy they were using or what size they were. There were no locations available for him. As the entity is data driven, as he says, the lack of transparency with data centres and all these issues around them would really undermine his ability to plan and look at reducing energy in that sector. I want to make that comment because it is a major gap.