Ms Aoife MacEvilly:

On the issue of the planned plants, we understand that one such plant will come into operation soon. We hope to see more such plants open over time. Our decision on the data centre is also based on the legal definition of the energy generation process, which is set out in law.

We could not see any case for the use of electricity in a data centre being considered as energy generation, which is the requirement under both the directive and Irish law.