Powering the Cloud : An economic analysis of Data Centres in Ireland
What is the economic and environmental cost of Data Centres?
The problem: Ireland hosts a disproportionate share of European data centres — what is the real economic and environmental cost of that?
Economic analysis: Quantitative modelling of GDP contribution, employment, electricity demand, and carbon emissions in R, framed as a policy trade-off analysis.
TL;DR: The cloud has a physical footprint — this is what it costs Ireland.
