Customer energy bills are not bearing a 'disproportionate brunt' from data centres, regulator says

Commission for Regulation of Utilities chair Fergal Mulligan said: 'At the moment, data centres carry their fair proportion of network charges.' File picture: Niall Carson/PA

Irish households paying the highest electricity costs in Europe are not bearing a “disproportionate brunt” from data centres in their bills, the chair of the energy regulator has said.

The Oireachtas Energy Committee has also heard that developing nuclear power in Ireland would be “extraordinarily intensive” in terms of investment, could take up to 15 years, and have “unforeseen consequences”.