Paddy Cosgrave

Gemini estimates Ireland’s 107 data centres may use “13 to 30 times” more water than Irish Water claims. Irish Water says data centres are using 5 million litres per day. Gemini says it’s possibly up to 272 million litres per day. That’s 54 times more than Irish Water claims 🤔 https://t.co/EvZDrTiExJ #DataCentres #Ireland #WaterUsage #IE

Irish households water use is below the EU average, but the amount of water we “abstract” is amongst the very highest. If Irish households aren’t using much water, but very high levels of water is being abstracted and used, who exactly is using it all? 🤔 https://t.co/BSdechr0O6 #WaterUse #Ireland #Sustainability #IE #EU

Company that was revealed on Tuesday of this week to have made just €136,000 in revenue in Ireland while burning through €50 million says on Friday it’s shutting down in Ireland for reasons not related to its inability to generate just about any revenue whatsoever. Sure bro. https://t.co/ijBKcBFYWQ #BusinessFail #StartupStruggles #Ireland #IE

If you’ve money in Ireland your kid can skip hospital waiting lists. But it’s back of the line for kids whose parents don’t have money. As the kids of most journalists & Gov ministers can skip hospital waiting lists, no one in power says a thing about this dystopian system. Fact https://t.co/WZ5D85oElN #HealthInequality #AccessToCare #IrelandHealthcare #IE

It’s worth remembering Aughinish Alumina’s Russian owner - “Putin’s favourite oligarch” - was protected by Ireland’s Fine Gael & Fianna Fáil for years. Fine Gael once lobbied the White House directly to lift sanctions on Aughinish Alumina, and then boasted about it all 🤔 https://t.co/T4wtkmDztu #PutinsOligarch #FineGael #AughinishAlumina #IE #RU #US

Data centre growth represents the death of western innovation. So bloated & inefficient are western closed AI models compared to open Chinese AI models, that our tech lords need to splurge on endless data centres. Meanwhile the Chinese require only a tiny fraction. Of course the https://t.co/2PaY2UgO9b #DataCenters #Innovation #AI #CN #US

The global south is innovating at a speed that’s difficult to appreciate. I’m off to Rio in 10 days for Web Summit. The energy in South America is 🔥. It’s a very different event to anything in Europe or North America. Fintech in particular is a different universe. Can’t wait 🇧🇷 https://t.co/5EWb0BzRPS #WebSummit #Fintech #GlobalSouth #BR #EU #NA

Western AI companies are mostly overpriced and over-marketed token businesses fronted by pitchmen who are desperate to disguise and distract consumers, businesses and governments from the fact that everyone in the know in tech has moved to open source models. #OpenSource #AIGrowth #TechTrends #Therearenospecificcountrymentionsinthetweet.Thus #theresponseisempty.

JFC the cost of renting soared not “amid” but clearly BECAUSE of the government’s “reforms” which were deliberately designed by FFG to serve the interests of mostly foreign institutional landlords. https://t.co/00QxgpRFFm #RentCrisis #GovernmentReforms #HousingAffordability #Thetweetdoesnotmentionanyspecificcountries.Therefore #theresultis: