Irish far-right are making speeches about migrants at their fuel protests.. meanwhile:

'Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all its urban homes combined, according to official figures.'

Amazon AWS, Google, Equinix, Microsoft, Digital Realty, Edge Connex..
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The Celtic Tiger was bred on tax cuts for oligarchs' companies. Weird that Ireland never had immigration prior to the economy being juiced by tech companies and now, thanks to tech companies outsized energy usage, the migrants that came to work in the new economy get blamed! History has an echo.
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We need to stop calling them fuke protests. It's a far right attempt to kill people via a denial of fuel.
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It's time all data centres had to provide their own power.

What's in this for Ireland?
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The power must be emission free. The last date centre that opened in Dublin increased Ireland's total carbon emissions by 1%. Not industrial emissions, total emissions, at a time everyone else is being told to reduce
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Aren't Amazon AWS, Google, Equinix, Microsoft, Digital Realty, Edge Connex migrants?
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Any new wind farms (private) that is in planning in my community is not to power homes but rather a proposed data centre and a hydrogen plant
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Those are the migrants :)
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AI is stealing all the jobs and energy with little taxes paid down on sponged resources. and these clowns are flag banging anything they can hitch a wagon.
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And water. Lots and lots of cool, clean drinking water.
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