Does Irish Water even know how much water data centres are using?
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
Much of the debate around data centres has focused on electricity, but the gap in figures for their water use has started to draw more attention – and breed mistrust.
“Thousands of people live in the city, and it appears they have been overlooked,” says Noel Wardick, CEO of the Dublin City Community Co-op.
There's resistance from companies that stand to lose out, but there are also some real, but solveable, safety issues to get a handle on, say experts.
Dublin City Council is partnering with Voice Ireland on the project, which aims to help reduce the mountain of disposable nappies that are helping fill the country's bins.
"I think it's a slap in the face of inclusivity, of diversity of this city, if we can move to develop nearly 5,000 units and we can not even develop one new site of Traveller accommodation," said one councillor.
Those joining the cat crawl got a map marked with the cats' locations and names across nearly 20 households.
Academics and politicians say that’s because, for a small cohort, there’s an existential risk in admitting to their audience that the rules have hardened.
“I do believe in this project, but it is hard to stand over that when we were given unsound advice," said one councillor.
In both cases, councillors pushed changes to the planned variations that they said were meant to force the construction of not only housing, but other infrastructure there too.
It is not clear if the records are accurate, or whether a new system for tracking maintenance requests will allow tracking of how long it takes the council to fix things.
Councillors at the South Central Area got word that phase two of the big project in the south inner-city is ready to move forward.
Irina Artemjeva, who filed a dispute for alleged unlawful termination of tenancy, says, she has to move around a lot. “It's a very unstable situation.”