Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 15 November 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action
Future Licences and Contracts to Connect Data Centres to the Gas Network: Discussion
Mr. Jim Gannon:
It would be helpful, although it is difficult to get to, to understand how many of these projects are not, in fact, proposed islanded data centres. Many of them would be using gas and would need a gas connection but they are not necessarily saying it would be their primary source of fuel. They would be connected primarily to the electricity grid as their source of energy but their backup, instead of being diesel or something else, would not necessarily require that their own power station be islanded. We can seek that clarity.
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