Comment on Ireland’s datacentres overtake electricity use of all urban homes combined | The Guardian

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• el_abuelo@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Don’t worry - electricity also trickles down.

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• benjhm@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  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).

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  • smeeps@lemmy.mtate.me.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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

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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.

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