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Broadband good; data centres bad

  • 05-01-2021 3:15pm
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    Snickers Man
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    Is this the most stupid letter you've seen in the Irish Times for a while?

    Guy says we should reduce demand for energy by penalising car use and encouraging more people to work at home.
    OK. A bit tree huggy but all well and good and makes some sense.

    Then he says we should stop building data centres because we don't have a guaranteed source of renewable energy!!

    Sharpen up the quills and train some fast carrier pigeons. Hard-copy transmission via avian porter may not be the speediest means of information transfer but at least you won't have the guilt of all those emissions from hosting Zoom, Microsoft 365, Teams, Skype, Google Meets, Twitter, Outlook, Wikipedia, Google Docs, etc etc at a nearby site.

    Think the dude is lacking a bit in the joined up thinking department :)



    Ireland’s energy needs
    Mon, Jan 4, 2021, 00:08

    Sir, – Whether wind turbines are an appalling vista or not (Letters, December 31st), they do at least make some small contribution to Ireland’s energy needs without adding to greenhouse gas emissions. In 2019, wind energy accounted for 5.9 per cent of the country’s total energy needs.

    If we want to make more rapid progress on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, we should focus on the energy demand side to at least the same extent as we do on wind energy.

    Energy consumption by private cars in 2019 was almost 2½ times greater than the energy produced by wind.

    A combination of road pricing and continued home working would do more to reduce emissions than much if not all of the planned offshore wind farms.

    It might also be a good idea to stop building data centres for which we have no guaranteed source of renewable energy. – Yours etc.


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