Jennifer Whitmore (Wicklow, Social Democrats) | Oireachtas source

I suppose we have to translate that into a usable energy source and in order to do that we must have construction workers, developers and the infrastructure, and that is limited. Where that is limited, that is the limiting factor. If we have 100 workers and they can produce ten wind farms, are we better off saying we do not want those ten wind farms to be used for growth in data centre demand but that this energy should be used for businesses and homes across the country? When we have sufficient capacity we can certainly open it up and data centres can build their own wind farms and have their own contracts but that should not be the case until we match our status quo of energy demand.