A 710MW gas power station is proposed for Derrygreenagh.
An Offaly councillor says housing must come before data centres.
Plans are in place for a 710MW gas power station and potentially Ireland’s largest data centre on former bogland at Derrygreenagh, with Amazon involved in the project.
Last year, data centres used nearly a quarter of Ireland’s electricity, compared with just 5% a decade earlier, almost matching the electricity consumption of every home in the country.
Sinn Fein's Aoife Masterson says manpower is being sent to work on the wrong projects:
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