Ireland’s energy-hungry datacentres consumed more electricity last year than all of its urban homes combined, according to official figures.The country’s growing fleet of datacentres used 21% of its electricity, an increase of a fifth on 2022, according to the Central Statistics Office.It was the first year that datacentres supporting the Irish tech hub surpassed the electricity used by homes in its towns and cities, which consumed 18% of the grid’s total power last year.Experts have raised conc...