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

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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