Hey, this is Paris. I hope you enjoyed the Data Vampire series that we did back in October.

It's had a fantastic response. And for that series, I spoke to a bunch of experts.

And now we're releasing the full-length versions of those interviews for our supporters over on patreon.com.

And I wanted to give you a preview of what those interviews sound like.

So you can consider whether to go to patreon.com

slash tech won't save us, become a supporter yourself, so you can learn even more about the

important topics that we dug into in that special series. So enjoy this clip from my interview

with Breen Smith. You mentioned, you know, the amount of power that these things use, but also

how they use a lot of water as well.

Do you feel like there's one of those things that are particularly motivating, like the concerns that Irish people have about the data centers, like one over another?

Yeah, definitely power over water because water is not often spoken about.

It's not really spoken about in the context of this.

We bring it up a lot, but it's definitely power is the thing.

And it's because of these amber alerts and these warnings of blackouts.

And then you go and look and you see, okay, so what's going on here?

And the amount that the data centres are absorbing is totally out of kilter. But it's also out of kilter with the rest of the world

because we looked at statistics and even a place like Singapore, which is like a tax haven as well

and full of global corporations and multinational tech companies,

they would only allow them go to 7% of the national grid, the data centre usage. Most

countries, it's 3 to 4%. But in Ireland, they're going to allow to go to 30. As I said, it's currently

at 23 to 24. And that's flying way ahead of where we thought it would be.

Now, there was sort of spun as good news the other day

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