It's pretty wild that this is front page news on the Guardian (EU edition) but not in any of the Irish papers:

Logging back into Twitter to find out from some extremely large centrist brains why this is good actually

Importantly however we have established an Irish connection to the new presidential candidate, phew

And the Business Post spent the last few weeks frontpaging the "crisis" because the government won't build new generators for Google.

Meanwhile people like me who live in Dublin are being metaphorically whipped by the government for owning cars, using airplanes etc

A nice companion piece to the one about Taiwan paying farmers not to grow crops to save water for AI related chipmaker plants.

So even with the power they generate from solar panels (and any power they send out to the grid at quieter times), they took a FIFTH of our national energy?! AI is a big part of the problem. Not to mention all the emissions. theconversation.com/power-hungry...

Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it

Google, Microsoft and Meta have all reported significant emissions increases due to AI.

That 0% VAT rate Newspapers got isn't free

So, AGI will kill us all but electricity for the data centers accelerating the climate catastrophy. This AI shit must end!

By overtakes they mean urban homes went down to 8% and Data Centres went from 5% up to 20% of total usage. Seems like maybe a problem to me.