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Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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[–] Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz 66 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Business & Industry uses over 75% of electricity in Ireland. Residential energy usage really is not that much, in any country in the world.

Same with CO2, almost all of it is created by industries.

[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 10 points 3 months ago

Don't worry - electricity also trickles down.

[–] benjhm@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ' almost all ' is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don't forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).

[–] smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk 8 points 3 months ago

Also no one ever mentions that the industries are building products for the public. They don't just release CO2 and use electricity for fun lol

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 months ago

Well, in the US, here's a decent breakdown by sector:

  • 30% industry
  • 31% residential & commercial
  • 29% transportation
  • 10% agriculture

I don't know what the breakdown is between residential and commercial, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's pretty even.

And here's data for Ireland:

  • 38% agriculture
  • 21% transportation
  • 14% energy
  • 11% industrial (combined mfg combustion and industrial)
  • 10% residential
  • 5% other

So yeah, unless you count agriculture as "industries," they are one of the smaller factors in Ireland, especially compared to other parts of the world.