John Reynolds
@johnreynlds
Freelance business journalist, Sunday & Irish Independent / The Currency. Also cover climate and energy. Other writing, editing & comms work too.
Ireland and #datacentres On LinkedIn by someone at SEAI who is paid to look at this stuff
Data centre ambitions would double Ireland’s entire electricity demand
A must-listen interview with one of the writers, Declan Lawn, if you’re a #BlueLights fan
One for @andyburnham.bsky.social Here’s an AI analysis of the ongoing annual impact of Covid in the UK Sizeable GDP win if you can mandate cleaner air mitigations that put even a dent in these numbers
A lot of agreement with and views of my LinkedIn post about @kosull.bsky.social ‘s article in today’s Irish Times on Ireland’s renewables future I’d written something similarly downbeat back in 2012…
A local casualty of #StormDarragh passed on my evening walk with the dog Eir mobile network also down since last night. That they have no backup seems pretty bad…
Copy nothing they said….🤔 New #Jaguar is similar to (much more expensive) Rolls Royce Spectre
No punches pulled by Diarmaid Ferriter… www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2024...
This is kind of a sick joke on us all in Ireland as the world faces the serious possibility of a recession in 2025
Some recent pieces I wrote for The Currency thecurrency.news/articles/159... thecurrency.news/articles/163...
I sometimes write about the intersection of health and business in Ireland, particularly given the HSE’s €24 billion budget and how it gets spent Then there’s its need for digital transformation as well, which involves more billions Here’s a few examples…
Another reason to leave the other place Content being used to train AI seemingly with no opt out
Merry Christmas one and all 🎄 (Card from / by the Irish Cancer Society)
Climate reality becoming clearer to the Taoiseach it seems as he talks about changes in land use? But is Ireland ready for a likely bigger, more interventionist state? Also we arguably have a moral duty to accordingly change how we live…however unpopular