Episode 9

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Published on:

11th Dec 2024

Climate Question : What are Data Centres and why are they bad for the climate?

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Data centres are in the news again and for all the wrong reasons. They're using more than 20% of Ireland's electricity, they're plugging into fossil gas and they're gobbling up our renewables.

In this climate question episode, Ciara asks what data centres are all about and why are they a climate problem? We look at the impact of AI and find out about dark data.

We all use data centres don't we, what can we do to press pause?

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