Moratorium on data centres needed to protect stability of electricity grid, committee to hear

The Environment and Climate Action Committee is due to hear from the CRU, the national grid operator Eirgrid and Professor Barry McMullin of Dublin City University on Tuesday

The impact of data centres on power consumption in Ireland and Liquified Natural Gas will be discussed at the meeting

Not banning the further building of data centres will be like "trying to run down an up-escalator" an Oireachtas committee will be told on Tuesday.

The Oireachtas committee Environment and Climate Action is due to hear from the Commission on the Regulation of Utilities (CRU), the national grid operator Eirgrid and Professor Barry McMullin of Dublin City University on Tuesday.