| ▲ | pizzafeelsright 3 hours ago |
| That is about 3% of California's total energy usage Or about 11,000 GWh which is about 4% of California which means without the theatrics: California has 4x more data centers than Ireland. California: ~810 watts per person.
(278,000 GWh / 39.4 million people) Ireland: ~690 watts per person.
(32,000 GWh / 5.3 million people) We have air conditioning and that may be why we use more POWAH |
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| ▲ | hinkley 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| I'm actually quite surprised that California only has 4x as many data centers, with CA having more than 7x the population (not to mention being pivotal in the Information Age) |
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| ▲ | paleotrope an hour ago | parent [-] | | California is not a great place to build data centers. If you need to service CA, there are better options | | |
| ▲ | hinkley an hour ago | parent [-] | | Oh yeah, power distribution is kind of a circus there isn't it. | | |
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| ▲ | JumpCrisscross 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| What fraction of Irish GDP is linked to datacenters? If I remember correctly from the pre-AI world, datacenters were at the heart of Dublin's industrial strategy, and they were credibly linked to a double-digit fraction of production. |
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| ▲ | stuaxo 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | Irelands big pull to these companies is to not tax them as much as other countries. | | |
| ▲ | dboreham 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | That said, once built and lit up, it's hard to move a data center to another country. | | |
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| ▲ | henry2023 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Even in the hypothetical that datacenters would double Ireland’s GDP what real positive impact would it have if they pay zero taxes? | | |
| ▲ | a_paddy 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | They do pay tax, 12.5%. Plus employment during construction and maintenance. There's also ancillary investment in national infrastructure such as Google's CO2 battery | |
| ▲ | hunterpayne 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | The rest of Europe sued Ireland to get them to stop being a tax haven. Ireland basically refuses to do so. If they did, most of their economy evaporates overnight (and the US government gets a lot more tax revenue). Ireland's economy is basically 2 tax shelters in a trench coat. | |
| ▲ | phs318u 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Did you mean hypothesis? | | |
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