Schneider teams up with Kraken to improve electricity demand flexibility to facilitate faster connections for data centers

Data centre electricity demand could exceed entire power usage of Irish Republic -
✍️Caroline O' Doherty

Hannah Daly, professor of sustainable energy at University College Cork, will tell committee members they must carefully consider the scale of that demand and its… pic.twitter.com/LIxEHJ1400

— Mick Caul (@caulmick) June 9, 2026

The government tell us to turn our heating down and eat less red meat for net zero. Yet they ram through gigantic hyperscale data centres that consume as much electricity in 24 hours as roughly 89 average streets use over an entire year. We are being treated like suckers. pic.twitter.com/tZV3MKpFXc

— James Melville 🚜 (@JamesMelville) June 8, 2026