Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 18 April 2023

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Climate Action

Pre-Legislative Scrutiny of the General Scheme of the Energy (Windfall Gains in the Energy Sector) Bill 2023

Photo of Lynn BoylanLynn Boylan (Sinn Fein)
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To follow up on that, one of our big concerns is the increasing number of data centres that are applying for gas connections and that they will be islanded data centres. That is what is leading to the main increase in gas demand – it is new customers, so to speak, coming on. We have agreed to this 15% gas demand reduction but we are actually going in the opposite direction.