Imelda Munster (Louth, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source

In my home town there is a data centre being built at the moment and there are applications in for a further two. Water supply is not up to capacity. Mr. Griffin is talking about further down the road, but we have a much higher percentage of data centres than any other state in Europe. I want to come back to him regarding Eirgrid. I spoke to one EirGrid employee who described what was occurring internally on data centres being the cause of mass panic, regardless of what the Department has been assured of. That mass panic related to security of supply and they were placing the blame on issues of reliability regarding wind, the premature closing of peat burning stations, and particularly data centres. How would the Department respond to those fears?