Eamon Ryan (Dublin Bay South, Green Party)
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The Senator raised three issues. First, with regard to data centres, the issue about connection applies there more than anything else and will be set out by the publication next month in the CRU's large energy users connections policy. That will set out some of the criteria we seek to apply.

It is not just writing to GNI. I have had very extensive meetings with the Irish companies that have real expertise in how data centres are built and bring real employment and benefits to the country, and also with the large cloud-based companies that would be the main customers. We are the ultimate customers anyway, as we have mobile phones, but I have met the suppliers of that service. In talking to them there is widespread acknowledgement and acceptance that we cannot go towards an islanded, gas-fired data centre system and that would be in breach of climate targets. That is-----