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Irish datacenters now guzzle 23% of the country's electricity

ON-PREM Consumption rose another 10% while restrictions on most new grid connections remained around Dublin Electricity used by datacenters in Ireland increased by 10 percent during 2025, despite an effective moratorium on most new datacenter grid connections in the Dublin area.The latest figures from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) show that giant server farms now account for nearly a quarter of the country's metered electricity consumption.Their share rose to 23 percent in 2025 after...

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