The inexorable rise of AI and the data centres has become something of a cause célèbre around the world.
While, in the past few years, AI has become one of the central pillars of the global economy, it is also under huge pressure to address its energy and water consumption.
Though the technology is still in its growth phase, governments and organisations have already begun imposing regulations in an effort to limit the environmental impacts of data centres.
The Irish Government is one such example.
Last year, the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities (Ireland's independent regulator for the energy sector) ruled that future data centres must meet 80% of their energy needs from additional Irish renewable power plants – a decision that has divided opinion across the energy and technology sectors.
