Ireland says there will be no computation without generation

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Ireland says there will be no computation without generation

Ireland’s Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU), the nation’s independent regulator of energy and water, is proposing strict new rules for data center operators, key among them being that new facilities will “be required to provide generation and/or storage capacity to match the requested data center demand capacity.” In what amounts to an example of just how strict many nations are becoming when it comes to data center expansion plans, t…