spaghetti, for when you want your food to gently spank your face
Irish Water says that data Centres consumed 810 megalitres of water in 2021. However, when pressed, they admitted that they could not say how they arrived at that figure, show their workings, or provide a more up-to-date breakdown of commercial water consumption in Ireland. Irish Water.
Andrew Jackson@andrewlrjackson.bsky.social · 3w agoIn 2021, Meta’s data centre complex in Clonee, Co. Meath, used more water from the mains than Irish Water said was being used by all Irish data centres combined. “Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?”, by @lokapila.bsky.social www.dublininquirer.com/does-irish-w...
![According to Irish Water, as of 2021, data centres across Ireland drank about 810 megalitres of water from the public mains a year – which is about 0.13 percent of overall national supply.
But that same year, Meta reported that it withdrew 928 megalitres of water for its data centres in Clonee in Meath. Planning documents say that it was to rely on water from the mains.
That’s more than Irish Water said was consumed overall in the country that year.
A spokesperson for Irish Water said on 19 June [2026] that it couldn’t lay out its methodology behind the 810 megalitres figure – or give more up-to-date figures on water use by data centres, since the AI boom.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:sjznb6msdsbogkbwdorupxz3/bafkreia6pcrfbgpds4s7waaniamogy73earjmu3xzts4mlbj6cet57i4pa)
Looks like it's going to be even warmer today 😁
I just—like, sure, being a trillionaire is cool I guess but what’s it all for if you haven’t even seen the wreckage of the titanic firsthand
I keep being reminded of this question and answer: "What is the problem that AI services are being built to solve?" "Wages."
"Tank-fly, boss-walk jam nitty-gritty, you’re listening to the boy from the big bad city."
- Do you know your brother’s a nonce? - You hum it, I’ll play it.
Hey, billionaire tech guys; if arts degrees are so worthless why do you keep stealing all the work we created with ours?
Plans to invade Greenland have just been cancelled after this
There is no issue more riddled with Experts than “defence”. Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, we’ve listened to the same cabal of academics, all brandishing identical talking points about emerging threats and changing realities. www.ontheditch.com/comment-the-...
Comment: The trouble with Experts
Whatever the topic, however serious or frivolous, an Expert is available.
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JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
State agency Bord Bia last year paid more than €135,000 for “food costs” to a catering company directed by under-fire chairman Larry Murrin and owned by his wife. www.ontheditch.com/bord-bia-paid/
Bord Bia paid €135k to company directed by its chairman
Larry Murrin's wife owns the company.
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Back in one of my favorite shops in Edinburgh, Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk. Easy to spend an entire afternoon here 🙌
Get ready for Phase Two: a raid on Oslo to seize the Peace Prize.
Michael C. Rockefeller got shipwrecked in 1963, washed up on an island, and was promptly eaten by cannibals.
A great day for the golden rule of political analysis: when the right wins it is a resounding ideological victory that humiliates the left and when the left wins it is a precarious fluke that will surely end up humiliating the left. Conservatives are power’s landlords and the left merely tenants