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Darragh O'Brien needs to be asked a direct question: will hyperscale energy consumers like Data Centres (which consume at least 1/4 of all electricity in Ireland) also face price hikes and other measures to offset the burden citizens are being asked to shoulder?

Electricity bills to face fresh hike from October as regulator approves higher network chargesHouseholds will pay around €41 more a year in network charges.www.thejournal.ie

“Many of our Irish politicians remain convinced that the #climate crisis is not coming for us. I beg to disagree” Another clip from @tonightvmtv.bsky.social a short time ago.

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Opinion: With wildfires across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the climate warning signs couldn't be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on action... jrnl.ie/7113635

Wildfires at home and abroad: The climate crisis is here, and Ireland is far from preparedWith wildfires raging across Europe and here at home in Tipperary, Kerry and Wicklow, the warning signs couldn’t be clearer, yet the government drags its feet on climate action.jrnl.ie

[From 2021! Always worth a reminder of the paths repeatedly not followed...] www.thejuicemedia.com/honest-gover...

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For years fossil fuel companies argued that gas was a bridge fuel. What they didn't say was that it was a bridge to climate breakdown.

«the vast majority of AI data centers are the AI bubble’s subprime loans, and will collapse when they face the cold, harsh reality of “someone actually paying money for AI compute,”» @edzitron.com carrying a large portion of the water that will be needed to explain the AI-dumpster fire.

The Subprime Data Center CrisisThanks for reading this week’s free Where’s Your Ed At newsletter. Friday’s premium newsletter will ask the simple question: Is Oracle dying?  It’s been one year since I launched the premium newslett...www.wheresyoured.at

I made a film with very talented film makers. It’s in the Galway Film Fleadh. Going to the movies tomorrow morning might feel like poor timing. But seeing this film during the hottest year in recorded human civilisation, isn’t. #Climate #Speirgorm www.galwayfilmfleadh.com/project/glob...

Global Warning - Galway Film Fleadhwww.galwayfilmfleadh.com

[Don't think "big challenge ahead" really conveys the situation. The gap between the 2026-2030 GHG budget and even *best case* for current Govt policies is HUGE: about 2 full extra *years* of emissions. #IMHO #FFFG are big on climate rhetoric but lack all credibility on COMMENSURATE delivery...]

Yesterday @antaisce.bsky.social and @FIE launched a legal challenge to the new judicial review cost caps. These new caps mean, if a member of the public or eNGO wins their case, they will still have to pay tens of thousands to correct the mistake by the State. www.antaisce.org/News/environ...

Environmental groups launch legal challenge against new regulations that severely restrict access to justiceTogether, An Taisce and Friends of the Irish Environment initiated a court challenge to new regulations that put a cap on the costs litigants in environmental legal cases can recover if they win their...www.antaisce.org

As someone who works alone and doesn't have any other 'departments', it's wild to see how long it has taken for companies with dedicated managers, accounts and IT staff to realize it will cost you big time to switch from something that requires a laptop to something requires a *fucking data centre*.

Ireland facing €13 billion bill for ambition to fail on climate targets - quite a headline for day one of Ireland's EU Presidency - hard for Minister to dismiss fiscal watchdog as "environmental fundamentalists" #spéirghorm www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

Ireland faces €13bn annual bill by 2050 for missing climate targetsCongestion charges and distance-based road charges recommended by State’s fiscal watchdogwww.irishtimes.com

Plans, plans, more plans & not enough action. 'We need to move from talking & planning, to seeing evidence-based action on the ground. Until we do that, our waterbodies will continue to disimprove.. Clean water is the essence of life, it’s time to treat it like the critical resource that it is. '

Ever wonder how AI systems can collate and regurgitate such vast tranches of information? Easy: they STEAL the work of countless thousands of writers, academics, journalists and media outlets and monetise it as their own. newjerseyglobe.com/media/nearly...

Nearly 400 local newspapers sue OpenAI, Microsoft over alleged copyright theft - New Jersey GlobeThe massive coalition of local newspaper publishers filed a federal lawsuit today against OpenAI and Microsoft, alleging the technology companiesnewjerseyglobe.com

Every book on the front window display of O'Mahony's Bookshop in Limerick is about the climate and environment crises. Some excellent reads there. 👏🏻 @omahonysbooks.bsky.social

Europe's worst heatwave so far, in terms of heat stress measures and temperatures - brought to you by fossil fuels. New @wwattribution.bsky.social study showing how such deadly heat became possible in only a few decades. www.worldweatherattribution.org/fossil-fuel-...

My letter to the editor this morning on the Irish media's coverage of heat waves. The media must stop framing extreme heat as a leisure opportunity and connect the dots between the climate crisis and worsening heatwaves.

Feeling the heat of climate crisis as extreme temperatures push us towards dangerNo plan to deal with heatwaves or how we will cope if weather gets even hotterwww.irishtimes.com

What could a future heatwave on the island of Ireland look like? A heatwave reaching 38°C is plausible. This particular heatwave is set in 2056 in a world approaching 2.5°C above pre-industrial levels. Analysis: @climatecocentre.bsky.social www.irishtimes.com/environment/...

With your help we ensured that the Nature Restoration Law was adopted. Now help us ensure we secure an ambitious plan to #RestoreNature. Be a voice for nature - make a submission to the public consultation on the Nature Restoration Plan www.environmentalpillar.ie/have-your-sa...

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++BREAKING++ Leading climate scientists in the UK have written to senior editors in broadcast media - and OFCOM and IPSO: "To express our concern about recent media coverage of extreme weather, climate change and net-zero and to urge you…to inform public audiences of the scientific links"