Microsoft plans private power plant on €900m data centre site

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Microsoft plans to build an unprecedentedly large-scale gas power plant as part of a new €900 million data centre development in Dublin due to its concerns about the severe constraints on Ireland’s energy grid, the Business Post can reveal.

The planned investment will bring the total number of data centres operated by the US tech giant in Ireland to 15.

Generally, data centre operators will have smaller diesel-powered generators on-site for emergency scenarios. But in ...

 

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I dont think gas is the right answer here.... A local solve for then but not a real solution

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