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Hannah Daly speaks at Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence
9 Jun 2026
Hannah Daly briefs the Joint Committee on Artificial Intelligence on a new working paper which quantifies the potential energy and emissions from data centres into the future under the new Large Energy User Connection Policy, should 5.8 GW of new capacity (estimated through a market survey) emerge.
🔗 Working paper: https://zenodo.org/records/20585450
🔗 Committee video (begins at 11.15): https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/oireachtas-tv/cr4-live/
🔗 My opening statement will be published here: https://www.oireachtas.ie/en/committees/34/artificial-intelligence/
🔗 Irish Times coverage: https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2026/06/09/data-centre-electricity-demand-could-exceed-power-usage-of-entire-country/