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Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they're consuming too much of its energy

Ireland embraced data centers that the AI boom needs. Now they're consuming too much of its energy

2 weeks ago
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https://apnews.com/article/ai-data-centers-ireland-6c0d63cbda3df740cd9bf2829ad62058

CLONDALKIN, Ireland (AP) — Dozens of massive data centers humming at the outskirts of Dublin are consuming more electricity than all of the urban homes in Ireland and starting to wear out the warm welcome that brought them here.

Now, a country that made itself a computing factory for Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft and TikTok is wondering whether it was all worth it as tech giants look around the world to build even more data centers to fuel the next wave of artificial intelligence.

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