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Elaine McGoff
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PhD. Head of Advocacy for An Taisce. Water floats my boat. 🚲 powered. Views are my own.
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🇮🇪 Ireland has effective moratorium on new data centres due to lack of capacity

Unrelated: Ireland’s govt plans emergency powers & limits on access to the courts

Unrelated: €3.5 billion budget for infrastructure

Unrelated: Meta & Amazon are building nuclear reactors to power data centres for AI
Meta signs deal with nuclear plant to power Al and datacenters for 20 years Facebook and Instagram parent's deal follows other big tech companies signing agreements with power companies Meta on Tuesday said it had struck an agreement to keep one nuclear reactor of a US utility company in Illinois operating for 20 years. Meta's deal with Constellation Energy is the social networking company's first with a nuclear power plant. Other large tech companies are looking to secure electricity as US power demand rises significantly in part due to the needs of artificial intelligence and datacenters. Google has reached agreements to supply its datacenters with nuclear power via a half-dozen small reactors built by a California utility company. Microsoft's similar contract will restart the Three Mile Island nuclear plant Amazon goes nuclear, to invest more than $500 million to develop small modular reactors
November 28, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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November 27, 2025 at 9:38 AM
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November 26, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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I know, finally!
November 24, 2025 at 1:44 PM
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Not that I'm aware of. There doesn't appear to be a plan B.
November 22, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 6:18 PM