Brian Leddin (Limerick City, Green Party) | Oireachtas source

To add to that, is there not also a question as to whether we should be building such data centres at all? There is the question of the moratorium which we discussed. There were different views across the committee on that issue but it is a fundamental question. Is it wise to allow the energy demand from data centres to go up to the 30% Deputy Whitmore mentioned? Will that make everything a hell of a lot harder? I do not want to suggest that is a simplistic way of looking at it but is there more to it? Is it more complex than that?