| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago |
| > objectively reporting facts? I believe so. They're not known for neutrally reporting them, which is different. |
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| ▲ | antonvs 3 hours ago | parent [-] |
| Do Ireland's data centers objectively "guzzle" electricity? I don't have any problem with The Register, but reporting laden with value-judging adjectives is not objective. |
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| ▲ | teamonkey 2 hours ago | parent [-] | | Objectively, yes. It means to consume excessive or plentiful amounts of something, and 23% of Ireland’s electricity generation capability is objectively an excessive and plentiful amount. | | |
| ▲ | hunterpayne an hour ago | parent | next [-] | | Objectively no, 23% of nothing is nothing. Ireland has no industry. Their grid is smaller than a major city's grid. That this is 23% says a lot more about the size of the Irish grid and their lack of industry than it does about how much energy a datacenter uses. | |
| ▲ | antonvs an hour ago | parent | prev [-] | | The characterization as “excessive” is subjective. If you disagree, what are your objective criteria for making that claim? You fundamentally can’t give a correct answer to that, because it requires defining a threshold, and that’s subjective. If people seriously think claims like this are “objective”, I weep for our collective understanding of reality. |
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