Exactly. Furthermore, the fine article mentions 21% going to datacenters (of which, which fraction might be off-shoreable anyway?), and 18% to homes.
Okay, that leaves 61% going to what?
Which other industry uses have been going up or down? Then compounded by "If we already had lots of wind and lots of solar, it wouldn’t be a problem", which, as far as datacenters go probably misses the need for storage.
What this is seems more of a meme article, linking presumably evil datacenters, with climate change, with "policy of low corporate taxation."
Commercial maybe? I used to work in a Lidl and it was mentioned when they started automating their store lights inside and outside to turn off at night that it was taking a large load of the grid.
Lot's offices, SME's etc?
Warehouses? Not sure if they count as industrial or not.
Of course. And metals smelters, and street lighting. Whatever.
The point was that the fine article didn't care about that because it was a political hatchet job, rather than informing on how or why electric power is used in Ireland.
Okay, that leaves 61% going to what?
Which other industry uses have been going up or down? Then compounded by "If we already had lots of wind and lots of solar, it wouldn’t be a problem", which, as far as datacenters go probably misses the need for storage.
What this is seems more of a meme article, linking presumably evil datacenters, with climate change, with "policy of low corporate taxation."