*John Gibbons DATA CENTRES are using a fifth of the country’s electricity despite employing less than 2,000 people nationally with one of Ireland’s leading environmental journalists issuing a stark warning that lack of political understanding is accelerating “catastrophic changes”.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. A GROUP comprising of three individuals and two environmental organisations is mounting a legal challenge against the planned Ennis Data Centre development, citing serious environmental concerns. The High Court hearing is set for October.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. DEVELOPERS behind the planned €1.5bn data campus for Ennis has claimed that the project is being put at risk due to “bureaucratic inertia”.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. THE HIGH Court has ruled that a report error concerning a bat located in a barn outside Ennis is not sufficient to halt contentious plans for a new 200MW €1.2bn data centre campus.
*An artist’s impression of the Ennis Data Centre. AN BORD PLEANÁLA has conceded there is a flaw in the planning permission it granted for a €1.2bn data centre campus in Ennis.
SUPPORT for the planned Ennis Data Centre has been voiced by Tanáiste, Micheál Martin (FF).
APPLICANTS seeking a judicial review to the proposed Ennis Data Centre will present their case before the High Court on Monday.
*An artist’s impression of the Abbey Street development. ONE of the big election issues dominating the conversation in the Ennis Municipal District is the Ennis 2040 Strategy.
*Jacek Kazimierz Kwaśny AN ELECTION candidate in Ennis who previously worked in a data centre has said the figures mooted for the Ennis Data Centre will not come to fruition.
*Senator Roisin Garvey. Photograph: Natasha Barton CLARE’S GREEN Senator has said the Ennis Data Centre which was granted approval this week is not in line with government policy.