What have data centres ever done for us? (with Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie)
Are data centres central to the Irish economy? Or is that just some inflated bluster from the government on behalf of Big Tech? A recent report from Maynooth University has debunked some of the government’s claims around the benefits we reap from being Europe’s data centre dumping ground, so we asked two of its co-authors, Patrick Bresnihan and Patrick Brodie, to talk to us about Ireland’s data centre dependency, and the motivating factors behind it.
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>> Read the report, How We All Pay for Big Tech: The social, economic, and environmental costs costs of data…
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