For whoever’s interested in long form vid essays about likely root cause
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2R8q8GDwZ0
Looks like they have at least one more about Ireland but ive yet to watch that one.
As a tech professional, fuck AI, fuck Neoliberalism, and we need unions:
There are some data centres in the UK that use the waste heat to heat the local swimming pool. Seems a good idea, we need compute and we need heat, why not do both at once?
Surely it’s not too much of a stretch to have datacentres contributing to local district heating systems either?
Every time there is a power shortage, they tell residential customers they are being wastrels and should turn their lights off…
Same for water.
The future is in cold storage!
Hello AI, what do you know about planting tomatoes?
Yes, certainly!..you will find everything we know here 10.2.456 at your local SD card library.
Business & Industry uses over 75% of electricity in Ireland. Residential energy usage really is not that much, in any country in the world.
Same with CO2, almost all of it is created by industries.
Although not an expert on that specific country, I can be sure that ’ almost all ’ is very misleading, even if it gets a lot upvotes because people find it convenient to blame some big bad other. Even if you have specific data for electricity, don’t forget a lot of CO2 is emitted by cars, and also by fuel to heat homes (including some peat in special case of ireland - and in that country a large fraction of GHG emissions is also methane from agriculture).
Well, in the US, here’s a decent breakdown by sector:
- 30% industry
- 31% residential & commercial
- 29% transportation
- 10% agriculture
I don’t know what the breakdown is between residential and commercial, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pretty even.
- 38% agriculture
- 21% transportation
- 14% energy
- 11% industrial (combined mfg combustion and industrial)
- 10% residential
- 5% other
So yeah, unless you count agriculture as “industries,” they are one of the smaller factors in Ireland, especially compared to other parts of the world.
