Paul Murphy (Dublin South West, Solidarity) | Oireachtas source

It was recently reported that householders collectively paid approximately €454 million per year in capacity payments to data centres between 2007 and 2018. Since then, it has more than doubled to €1 billion per year. With 11 more data centres under construction and applications for 30 more, this massive subsidy form ordinary people to data centres is only going to grow. Is the Government going to do nothing to stop data centres from pushing up household energy costs?

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