Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
Officials point to money, government grant rules – and GDPR.
“I think this is a bit drastic and a bit disproportionate,” says Martin Collins of Pavee Point, who called on the council to reallocate the homes to other families.
The Department of Housing says it plans to issue new guidance. But a solicitor says that for progress, the law has to change.
But even if its appeal to An Coimisiún Pleanála is successful, one of its owners has other, bigger problems: Cathal O’Connor has been sentenced to prison.
Archaeologist Patrick Wallace, who led the 1970s excavation of the site, said he would love to see the area fully excavated – but he doesn’t support the demolition plans.
“People are going ballistic,” says Gayle Cullen Doyle, on Tuesday on the phone. “It's really after rattling them.”
The Department of Finance, with Revenue and the Department of Housing, is looking at a new definition, said a spokesperson.
Nine of those are in unregistered facilities.
“You’re building the next generation of long-term homeless,” says one charity official.
The Department of Transport says it’s working on a home-charging solution for those who don’t have driveways.
“The implementation has fallen at the first hurdle, which was government funding,” says Social Democrats TD Gary Gannon.
But a spokesperson for the charity said the position articulated by its deputy chief operations officer at a council meeting recently is not its current policy.