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One of Ireland's first district heating programmes has started operating. The Tallaght District Heating Scheme takes waste heat from an Amazon data centre and uses it to heat South Dublin County Council offices and a local library | Read more:

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Kieran Burke3 years ago

What does the data centre run on?

Jujube3 years ago

Would be good if it could be used to heat social housing.

*insert clever name here🇵🇸*3 years ago

Congratulations, you're doing what communist eastern Europe was doing back in the 1950's.

WeAreNature3 years ago

Data centers do more harm than good

BarryKelly ™3 years ago

What powers the data centres in the first place?? 🤣🤣🤣

George T McKay3 years ago

Data centres are basically power leeches

Mike3 years ago

These gas guzzling monsters will account for near 30% of our power usage when all planned centres are complete.. Absolutely unsustainable

Conor Hennessy3 years ago

\o/ This is a good thing. Stop moaning everyone.

Ireland for Progress 🇮🇪🇵🇸🇨🇺🇻🇳🏳️‍⚧️3 years ago

christ RTE are so out of touch

Derek Mahon3 years ago

Would make sense to mine bitcoin with it too.

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