“Ireland is described as “a live cautionary example” of energy demand running ahead of infrastructure, with data centres using electricity equivalent to all urban households combined”
Everyone always says how fun it is to be held up as a cautionary tale by the UN
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026...
Data processing accounts for 21% of Irish electricity use – compared to just 4% in the US and 1% in China
This episode of "Today" desperately needs a historian of policing, to explain why things like anti-racism training were introduced in the first place.
This wasn't some departure from a world in which the police treated everyone the same. It was an attempt to bring that world fractionally closer.
Simon McGarr
'For de Souza, the language shouldn't be about "banning the children", but instead "banning the companies"'.
The UK gov isn't planning to include an 'off-ramp' for companies whereby they can avoid a ban by offering age-appropriate services.
That means it's a ban on companies AND a ban on children
Know anyone who has burning questions about how law is responding to the confluence of AI and social media?
The 2026 instalment of the Law Society of Ireland's free annual Massive Open Online Course kicks off next week, and this year the focus is all things AI and social media law.
I can't find the actual Mann recommendations online (only the HMG response to it) and I am very curious to see if the line-drawing exercise WRT to 'political' symbols is engaged with in the report.
The Law Society of Ireland's annual MOOC has provided foundational teaching in the law to over 30,000 people from 115 countries since launching in 2014. I'm delighted to play a part this year.
Full details on the programme and how to participate: mooc2026.lawsociety.ie
