Received 23 April 2025
Decided 22 May 2025
Granted
Request Reference FOI-0094- 2025
Requester Type Elected-Oireachtas
Department of Climate, Energy and the Environment

In a recent PQ reply, the minister said that his department was aware of "the challenges around facilitating data centre connections in constrained regions which can lead to grid constraints on the local distribution network impacting other customers’ connections" I am seeking briefing notes, meeting minutes, reports or correspondence relating to the Department’s knowledge of housing not being connected to the energy grid due to data centres using capacity, covering the last two years.