(19 Dec 2024)
IRELAND AI CENTRE
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dublin, Ireland – 16 October 2024
1. Various, aerials of Meta data center outside Dublin ++ MUTE ++
2. Exterior of a data center
3. Various set up shots of Darragh Adelaide standing outside a data center
4. SOUNDBITE: (English) Darragh Adelaide, South Dublin County Council member
“When you look at the electricity use in Ireland, 21 per cent is used by data centers, which is a massive amount. When you look at water use, each one uses between 500,000 litres and five million. It gets particularly bad when it’s a very warm day or a set of warm days. and So when you’re looking at and comparing the resources that they use, the amount of carbon they produce to the amount of jobs they provide for the local community, I don’t think it’s worth having in this local area, 40 of the 80 data centers in Ireland are located right here.”
5. Various, aerials of Meta data center outside Dublin ++ MUTE ++
6. Various, exterior of Digital Realty data center in Dublin
7. SOUNDBITE: (English) Darragh Adelaide, South Dublin County Council member
“When you look at what the data centers are actually storing, it’s a lot of terrabytes of personal information on what sites you go to and how long you spend scrolling on a TikTok, that sort of thing. It’s a lot of personal information, that’s not necessary, stored so it could be sold on to marketers and used for AI and that sort of stuff. I think the reality is that data isn’t necessary. If we have a moratorium on data centers, it will force these big companies on maybe not storing so much personal information on people.”
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Dublin, Ireland – 17 October 2024
8. Close of logo of Digital Realty hanging inside the entrance hall
9. Set up shot of Dermot Lahey entering an empty data hall
10. Close of Emergency Operating Procedure manual
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Dermot Lahey, data center company Digital Realty’s head of implementation in Ireland
“The reason why we’re currently standing in an empty data hall is that under the current constraints on the electricity market, we’re unable to get a power connection that enables us to install new customers in this data hall. “
12. Various of connected data servers inside a different data hall of Digital Realty
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Dermot Lahey, data center company Digital Realty’s head of implementation in Ireland
“Because of the idea, or because the fact that we’re constrained power wise, and again, that forms the backdrop to the conversation of the Irish market place, we find more and more customers bypass Ireland as part of that conversation.”
14. Various, exteriors of Digital Realty data center
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Offaly County, Ireland – 15 October 2024
15. Various, aerials of a wind farm in Offaly County ++ MUTE ++
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Kevin O’Donovan, Statkraft managing director for Ireland
“The target in Ireland is eighty per cent of all of our electricity demand, coming from renewables. And that includes the projected growth by airgrid of the data centers being added to the mix.”
Lemanaghan, Ireland – 16 October 2024
17. Close of Protest banner hanging outside the headquarters of an activist group READING (English): "Protect Lemonaghan bog, no wind turbines"
18. Wide of exterior of headquarters Lemanaghan Bog Heritage and Conservation Group
19. Close of newspaper front page hanging on a wall inside the headquarters READING (English): ‘Wind row goes on as land is zoned for turbines’
20. Close of peat burning inside a fireplace
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