Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, RISE)
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There are to be no more data centres in Dublin and the east of the country but potentially a bunch more in the rest of the country, regardless of the additional burden owing to the additional electricity demand. The problem is that while the figure of 11% was correct, it is up to 17% at this stage. It keeps rising because we keep adding more data centres to the grid. That is a problem because attempting to move to renewable energy is very difficult if the amount of energy used is being increased. If we continue to use more and more power in data centres, it will make it extremely difficult to achieve our climate targets. Does IDA Ireland not see that? Is it not operating in line with our climate targets?