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Data centres on Newcastle Road take a fifth of Ireland’s electricity.

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  • Dooley films on the Newcastle Road, which he calls the data centre capital of Ireland, after a report that Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft use up to 20% of the country’s electricity. Behind him is an Edge Connect site that has just won permission for two big additions, which he says will put more pressure on the grid.
  • His question is who pays. He says data centres pay half the price per kilowatt hour that ordinary households do, and that workers also face higher network charges for the extra grid. About 320,000 households are in electricity arrears, he says, and he sets that against the government sending more money to Ukraine for its energy infrastructure.
  • He blames low taxation, favourable economic policy and a fast-track planning regime. By his count Ireland now has around 100 data centres, ten times what many European countries have, with about 30 near Grange Castle alone. He says Edge Connect is bankrolled by the richest family in Sweden, which he says owns about 40% of the Swedish stock market, plus other multi-billionaire investors, and lists the costs to local communities, water supply, farmland and heritage. In his telling, a few donations to local GAA clubs are public relations.
  • He then argues the buildings serve a larger agenda driven by globalists and signed up to by the government: digital ID, digital currency and everything interconnected. He ends by saying politicians exist to support big corporations, points to protests in the past few days elsewhere in the country, and tells people to wake up to what is happening on their own doorstep.
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00:00

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. I'm on the Newcastle Road in southwest Dublin. And this area is the data center capital of Ireland because today it was reported that four large tech companies consume up to 20% of total electricity in Ireland. Now they were reported to be Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft. Many of those big tech companies have data centers in around this area. Now over my shoulder there you can see another large data center edge connects.

They have recently got permission through top planning authority in the country to build two big additions to their data centers here in the Newcastle road just not too far from the Grand Canal in that direction towards Lucan and Adamstown. And again putting massive pressure on the grid. And who's going to pay for it?

Yes, ordinary working people. Data centers pay half the amount per kilowatt hour than ordinary households do. And not to mention the increased network charges for ordinary working people. About 320,000 households are currently in electricity ars in Ireland. and we have the highest electricity we should say really in the world. This is at the same time while the Irish government is sending over more money to Ukraine to support their energy infrastructure. While here in Ireland, it's wide open to these data.

Centers, big tech companies to make massive windfalls off all of our packs. And we're paying for it as well with increased network charges for the increased grid. Not to mention the increase in population we've seen over the past number of years also. But companies like Edge Connects make massive windfalls here as well because of the lacks taxation regime here in Ireland, favorable economic policies that benefit them and the planning regime. We all know about that. The fasttrack planning regime.

02:35

That's been pushed forward by the Irish government in

That's been pushed forward by the Irish government in the last number of years to benefit these data centers. There really 100 data centers now in Ireland. 10 times what a lot of the European European countries have. It's just absolutely just mana for these corporations to make huge windfalls and also have catastrophic impacts on local communities in the context of here. You can see this place here. It's just massive. And it goes the other parts of their organization are dotted.

Across Grange Castle which is back in this direction like places like Microsoft also and many more are in that part of Dublin. They said there about 30 in this area and they would have massive impacts on the grid as I said and this has been used for the massive totalitarian agenda that's been driven by globalists that the Irish government are fully signed up to. So we get your digital ID, digital currency and everything will be interconnected.

At the behest of the technocratic masters that are driving this dystopian agenda at the behest of them that will force us into a digital prism. That's what they want. And as you can see this sheer volume of what's happening here as well. This company Edge Connects bankrolled by the richest family in Sweden the Wenberg family who own about 40% of the Swedish stock market. Many large Swedish companies are owned by them as well.

And also there is other big multi-billionaire investors such as Jer Jeremy Ker who is uh worth about four billion euro and a Chileian businessman who was worth about I think it's name is John Santa if I remember correctly worth about 6 to 7 billion. So, uh, they're making massive, massive profits and we're all paying for it and we're all suffering the consequences of it.

05:19

And not to mention the catastrophic u impacts it's

And not to mention the catastrophic u impacts it's going to have in the drive towards totalitarianism and the environmental impacts of what's taking place in terms of the impacts on water supply as well and the local heritage around this area in terms of this is so much agricultural land was here for years and years And they've thrown a few bob towards local GA clubs I'm sure to say they're part of the community, part of the local.

Ecosystem. Isn't it just crazy what they try and spin and their public relations teams do at the behest of all the multinationals and so much foreign direct investment here in Ireland and the political establishment who are just in hawk to them a lot of interest in what they're doing. So they're pushing ahead with this agenda. They're driving forward with it. But again, this will have a big impact. We see so many big tech companies that have the HQs in Ireland.

And Ireland are always uh fantastic for supporting big corporations at the expense of ordinary people. That's what their politicians are there for, not to support ordinary people. So we've seen protests in the last few days in Comedian and County Warford around what's taking place as well. But ordinary people should wake up to what's taken place right on their own doorstep in rounds Dublin or 97%.

“And Ireland are always uh fantastic for supporting big corporations at the expense of ordinary people”

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11 Oct 2026 · Energy · 6:56

Data centres on Newcastle Road take a fifth of Ireland’s electricity.

Standing on the Newcastle Road in south-west Dublin, Dooley points to a report that four big tech companies use up to 20% of Ireland’s electricity. He argues data centres pay half the per-kilowatt-hour rate households do, while about 320,000 households are in electricity arrears. He also says the buildings feed a digital ID and digital currency agenda that the government has signed up to.

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Dooley films on the Newcastle Road, which he calls the data centre capital of Ireland, after a report that Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft use up to 20% of the country’s electricity. Behind him is an Edge Connect site that has just won permission for two big additions, which he says will put more pressure on the grid.
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His question is who pays. He says data centres pay half the price per kilowatt hour that ordinary households do, and that workers also face higher network charges for the extra grid. About 320,000 households are in electricity arrears, he says, and he sets that against the government sending more money to Ukraine for its energy infrastructure.
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He blames low taxation, favourable economic policy and a fast-track planning regime. By his count Ireland now has around 100 data centres, ten times what many European countries have, with about 30 near Grange Castle alone. He says Edge Connect is bankrolled by the richest family in Sweden, which he says owns about 40% of the Swedish stock market, plus other multi-billionaire investors, and lists the costs to local communities, water supply, farmland and heritage. In his telling, a few donations to local GAA clubs are public relations.
04
He then argues the buildings serve a larger agenda driven by globalists and signed up to by the government: digital ID, digital currency and everything interconnected. He ends by saying politicians exist to support big corporations, points to protests in the past few days elsewhere in the country, and tells people to wake up to what is happening on their own doorstep.
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Transcript · auto-captions, polish pending

Hello everyone

Hello everyone. I'm on the Newcastle Road in southwest Dublin. And this area is the data center capital of Ireland because today it was reported that four large tech companies consume up to 20% of total electricity in Ireland. Now they were reported to be Amazon, Google, Meta and Microsoft. Many of those big tech companies have data centers in around this area. Now over my shoulder there you can see another large data center edge connects.

They have recently got permission through top planning authority in the country to build two big additions to their data centers here in the Newcastle road just not too far from the Grand Canal in that direction towards Lucan and Adamstown. And again putting massive pressure on the grid. And who's going to pay for it?

Yes, ordinary working people. Data centers pay half the amount per kilowatt hour than ordinary households do. And not to mention the increased network charges for ordinary working people. About 320,000 households are currently in electricity ars in Ireland. and we have the highest electricity we should say really in the world. This is at the same time while the Irish government is sending over more money to Ukraine to support their energy infrastructure. While here in Ireland, it's wide open to these data.

Centers, big tech companies to make massive windfalls off all of our packs. And we're paying for it as well with increased network charges for the increased grid. Not to mention the increase in population we've seen over the past number of years also. But companies like Edge Connects make massive windfalls here as well because of the lacks taxation regime here in Ireland, favorable economic policies that benefit them and the planning regime. We all know about that. The fasttrack planning regime.

That's been pushed forward by the Irish government in

That's been pushed forward by the Irish government in the last number of years to benefit these data centers. There really 100 data centers now in Ireland. 10 times what a lot of the European European countries have. It's just absolutely just mana for these corporations to make huge windfalls and also have catastrophic impacts on local communities in the context of here. You can see this place here. It's just massive. And it goes the other parts of their organization are dotted.

Across Grange Castle which is back in this direction like places like Microsoft also and many more are in that part of Dublin. They said there about 30 in this area and they would have massive impacts on the grid as I said and this has been used for the massive totalitarian agenda that's been driven by globalists that the Irish government are fully signed up to. So we get your digital ID, digital currency and everything will be interconnected.

At the behest of the technocratic masters that are driving this dystopian agenda at the behest of them that will force us into a digital prism. That's what they want. And as you can see this sheer volume of what's happening here as well. This company Edge Connects bankrolled by the richest family in Sweden the Wenberg family who own about 40% of the Swedish stock market. Many large Swedish companies are owned by them as well.

And also there is other big multi-billionaire investors such as Jer Jeremy Ker who is uh worth about four billion euro and a Chileian businessman who was worth about I think it's name is John Santa if I remember correctly worth about 6 to 7 billion. So, uh, they're making massive, massive profits and we're all paying for it and we're all suffering the consequences of it.

And not to mention the catastrophic u impacts it's

And not to mention the catastrophic u impacts it's going to have in the drive towards totalitarianism and the environmental impacts of what's taking place in terms of the impacts on water supply as well and the local heritage around this area in terms of this is so much agricultural land was here for years and years And they've thrown a few bob towards local GA clubs I'm sure to say they're part of the community, part of the local.

Ecosystem. Isn't it just crazy what they try and spin and their public relations teams do at the behest of all the multinationals and so much foreign direct investment here in Ireland and the political establishment who are just in hawk to them a lot of interest in what they're doing. So they're pushing ahead with this agenda. They're driving forward with it. But again, this will have a big impact. We see so many big tech companies that have the HQs in Ireland.

And Ireland are always uh fantastic for supporting big corporations at the expense of ordinary people. That's what their politicians are there for, not to support ordinary people. So we've seen protests in the last few days in Comedian and County Warford around what's taking place as well. But ordinary people should wake up to what's taken place right on their own doorstep in rounds Dublin or 97%.

“And Ireland are always uh fantastic for supporting big corporations at the expense of ordinary people”

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