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

Photo of Paul MurphyPaul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE) | Oireachtas source

Sure. Has the CCAC tried to get this information about what the energy is spent on? I would wager that a small percentage of the total energy is spent on actual data storage of filing-type stuff.

A relatively large percentage is spent on Netflix, YouTube etc., which people genuinely use and get enjoyment from and so on. Also, another very significant percentage, perhaps even a majority, is stuff that is not socially useful, like the running of algorithms to target people with advertising to create more artificial watts. That is a very large percentage. Surely this-----

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