Connaught Telegraph
Summary
The Green Party in Mayo has stated it is 'broadly open' to the establishment of a data centre at the former Asahi plant in Killala.
"They support financial services, healthcare, education services, or in the case with Storm Eowyn just a few weeks ago, real time information on weather, maps for electricity and water faults, or eircodes to allow emergency services to get to where they need to go fast.
"The claim that data centres exist primarily for online advertising is an oversimplification.”
“North Mayo is a relatively unconstrained grid area.
"We have lots of wind power here and when the wind is blowing, a lot of that power is dumped at night because there’s no demand.
"Instead, this curtailed energy could be used and stored by the data centre. In addition, excess heat from the data centre could be used to provide low-carbon district heating and hot water to Killala town,” he outlined.
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