▲ 26 ▼ Data centre energy usage has outpaced growth of renewable energy in Ireland (m.independent.ie) submitted 2 years ago by maol@awful.systems to c/techtakes@awful.systems 2 comments fedilink hide all child comments "Total demand for electricity last year grew by 4.4pc, or 1.3 terawatts (TW), but 80pc of that increase, or 1.1TW, was from data centre growth." Training data for LLMs = higher energy prices and environmental degradation.