Im Bericht des Rechenzentrums der Regierung wurden die Aussichten auf höhere Stromrechnungen nicht untersucht

Lmao

As was probably the plan to serve their corporate overlords.

This is actually really smart – if we simply ignore the problems, they will just go away on their own.

I loves me country but I hates me government

Surprise surprise, why are we contributing anything towards these it’s insane.

>“Yet, €100,000 of taxpayers’ money later,” she said, what she believes is “the core question” had not been addressed.

Imagine reading that line as someone who has to comb through their form 11, and other tax return documents to ensure you pay back every cent revenue requires – only for gobshites in our government to piss it away without a care in the world.

They talk about future opportunities to improve yet continue to fuck over the average taxpayer and didn’t even buy us dinner first.

According to CSO data centres used 5% of total electricity consumption in 2015 and it was up to 21% by 2023, god knows what the 2026 number is. These newer AI data centres are even worse they use way more power than a regular data centre, like 3 to 5x the electricity and theres so many of these under planning or construction already. How the hell did they not consider what it will do to the cost of what is already one of the highest prices in Europe.
[https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dcmec/datacentresmeteredelectricityconsumption2023/keyfindings/](https://www.cso.ie/en/releasesandpublications/ep/p-dcmec/datacentresmeteredelectricityconsumption2023/keyfindings/)

In this case the government isn’t really at fault. It’s KPMG. They were given the parameters of what the consultation was looking for. And the tax payer paid for it

To be fair, *they* probably got a *lot* of kickbacks!

Don’t need to worry about no power bills when everyone’s gonna be so rich from all these datacentre jobs! Just think how many each one of them is gonna employ, and how much they’ll pay! Whooo! Zero issues anticipated!

How many times is the government gonna screw us over before we drag them out of the Dail? These people do not work for us.

Makes sense that the report would find difficulties for the corporations but not the people, given this government explicitly said they would prioritise data centres over the populace regarding electricity consumption.

If Ireland could derive an income from gouging ging its citizens’ eyes out and selling them, it would.

We are the most obscene product of cynical greed, we’re running headlong into things that Trumpistan is balking at. *Nothing* matters to us, apart money.

So the biased environmentalist report found

„It found the average household may have paid an estimated €360 in additional electricity costs between 2015 and 2023 due to data centre demand putting upward pressure on wholesale electricity prices.“

So we are talking 3.75 a month per household of extra costs. I would argue that the added value of having multinational tax revenue is orders of magnitude higher than that cost.

This is painful lesson that’s repeated again and again. You cant just throw a wad of money at a consultancy company and expect them to do a good job, they will just mess up, shrug there shoulders and wait for the next job. You need somebody in the organization who knows enough to vet them and is invested enough to ensure they do a good job.

Of course not because that would involve some actually foresight

Shady pricks