Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 16 July 2025
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate, Environment and Energy
Climate Change Targets 2026-2030: Electricity Sector
2:00 am
Pa Daly (Kerry, Sinn Fein) | Oireachtas source
I thank everyone for coming in. We are here to evaluate the prospect reaching our climate targets and look at the barriers in that regard. One of those barriers relates to data centres. We had a situation with Castlebaggot recently in the context of grid capacity. That capacity was originally supposed to be for housing but it is being used up by data centres. Mr. Marley referred to PR6. The capacity relating to a significant proportion of new connections to the grid is obviously being taken up by data centres. Do the witnesses agree with that?
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