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Quite something to see this pair of headlines beside each other in the Irish Times yet neither story connects the dots 🤦🏻 #SellersInflation
"Corporate profits climb 30%" as "Workers see sharp drop in living standards"
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Brian Marron
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🗣️ “50% of electricity demand in Dublin is data centres,"
Energy use by data centres is under scrutiny as rising costs and warnings of prolonged disruption hit Irish households.
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🗣️ “50% of electricity demand in Dublin is data centres,”
🗣️ “You are deliberately pushing up people's household bills, and decreasing the bills for the largest users of electricity,”
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Before you turn on the heating, have your weekly shower or cook your dinner, could you please think of the data centres who need all the energy we can give them to power the four companies generating most of the country’s GDP. Thanks.
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Profit is driving inflation. Beware those who would have you believe otherwise
The research of @IsabellaMWeber is essential to understand what's coming down the tracks
Lynn Boylan 🍷📖🐾@LNBDublin
Oversimplifying causes of current fuel cost crisis risks enabling profiteers. In Ireland, prices rise faster & fall more slowly than elsewhere. The home-heating oil price spike that was eight times steeper than EU average suggests that we’re an outlier. independent.ie/opinion/commen…
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EU electricity marginal price clearing system is masochistic - amplifying fuel shocks for consumers
Unnecessary for incentivising renewables growth, as shown by China
Even with 99% renewables, 1% gas for load - consumers pay gas price for the whole supply
energy-charts.info/charts/price_a…
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Last year, we learnt that a Microsoft data centre in Ireland was used for IDF surveillance operations in Palestine.
As the US+Israel extend their wars, Ireland needs to consider whether we should continue hosting these facilities.
euronews.com/next/2026/03/1…
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@PBresnihan And unless I missed something, these data centres are so bad that even the Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael government *explicitly* bans any more of them.
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@PBresnihan awful stuff. "Environmental campaigners would argue that this is still problematic"
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This is shocking reporting.
We are led to believe that data centres building their own massive, fossil fuelled energy plants is a positive step.
How is increasing dependency on gas, higher emissions and privately owned energy infrastructure positive?
rte.ie/news/business/…
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BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
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What can we learn from this
Simon Kuestenmacher@simongerman600
Awesome bit of data that makes intuitive sense. “Finland cut VAT on haircuts in 2007 to see if cheaper prices would boost demand and jobs. But when the tax fell by €4, many salons lowered prices by only €2 and kept the rest as profit. When VAT rose again, prices jumped by the full €4, turning a temporary tax cut into a permanent price hike. It’s tax incidence in action: firms with pricing power pass on cuts partly, and hikes fully.” Source: buff.ly/9vkSfvn
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The problem with fossil fuels is their intermittency 😅
Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡@shanaka86
Twenty million barrels of oil passed through the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. Today the number may be zero. Not because Iran mined the water. Not because a tanker was hit. Because Lloyd’s of London picked up the phone. War risk underwriters began canceling policies for strait transits hours after Operation Epic Fury launched. The Financial Times confirmed premiums surging 50 percent. Baseline war risk sits at 0.25 percent of hull value. For a hundred million dollar tanker that is 250,000 dollars per voyage. At peak escalation rates, one million per transit. Vessels linked to American or Israeli interests are becoming uninsurable entirely. No price. No policy. No passage. The KHK Empress was loaded with Omani crude heading for Basra when it executed a U-turn mid-strait and redirected to India. The Eagle Veracruz halted at the western approach carrying two million barrels of Saudi crude bound for China. The Front Shanghai stopped off Sharjah with Iraqi crude destined for Rotterdam. Nippon Yusen ordered its entire fleet to avoid Hormuz. Greece told its merchant armada to reassess passage. Hapag-Lloyd suspended all transits. None of them were fired upon. Every one of them got the same call. More than fifty million years ago the Arabian plate collided with the Eurasian plate and compressed the Persian Gulf into a basin that drains through a single geological bottleneck twenty one miles wide. Twenty one percent of global petroleum. Twenty percent of all seaborne LNG. One fifth of industrial civilization’s energy supply forced through a tectonic accident narrower than the English Channel, bordered on one side by the country whose supreme leader was killed yesterday morning. The USS Abraham Lincoln carries enough Tomahawks to sink every IRGC patrol boat in 48 hours. Operation Praying Mantis crippled Iran’s operational naval forces in eight hours in 1988. The Fifth Fleet has rehearsed this scenario for decades. None of that matters. Aircraft carriers cannot force an underwriter to rewrite a policy. Tomahawks cannot lower a premium. The most powerful navy in human history cannot make a Lloyd’s syndicate decide that a VLCC transiting Iranian coastal waters represents an acceptable risk on a Saturday afternoon when missiles are landing in Dubai. Goldman Sachs estimates Brent could peak at 110 dollars per barrel. JP Morgan projects 120 to 130. At those levels every airline bleeds cash. Every central bank watches three years of inflation fighting reignite overnight. Bypass pipelines from Saudi Arabia and the UAE handle roughly three million barrels. Hormuz handles twenty million. The math does not close. Iran figured out something the Pentagon still has not. You do not need to close a strait. You just need to make it uninsurable. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…
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@cilliandoyle87 Maybe they should have invaded Norway beforehand x.com/i/status/20277…
SNEAKO@sneako
Hormuz is closed. Maduro was neither captured to stop cocaine trafficking nor for “Monroe doctrine.” Venezuelan oil was the only way to supplement the loss of Iranian oil.
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@eoinmauricedaly And the Irish greens over on blue sky are taking a victory lap. Zero self awareness
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It’s funny that the English Green Party is saying stuff like we’re working to line the pockets of billionaires’ whereas the Irish Green was saying stuff like ‘we need to make Ireland a world leader in building data centres’
Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
"working hard used to get you something.. but now, working hard, what does that get you? .. life has changed. Instead of working for a nice life, we're working to line the pockets of billionaires. We are being bled dry" Part of Hannah Spencers acceptance speech
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Strategic Gas Bill does not deliver the solution to Ireland’s energy security needs. sinnfein.ie/news/strategic…
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Patrick O Donovan threatens to suspend funding to football teams after flare incident but when he was Minister for OPW he took zero action against OPW for illegal disturbance
of roost of rare species of bat. A NPWS report recommended prosecution.
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Four racehorses were "raced to death" at Irish race tracks so far this year
Where's the outrage and vilification of the people responsible?
Ban Blood Sports@banbloodsports
Pregnant horse raced to death on Irish road triggers call for ban thecanary.co/global/world-a…
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A look at the Coolglass ruling with input from Dr Orla Kelleher of @MaynoothLaw @LNBDublin @OisinCoghlan
irishtimes.com/environment/cl…
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Energy regulator urged to scrap data centre policy following Supreme Court's wind farm ruling jrnl.ie/6947397
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