Twenty-two cables, two per year from 2015 to 2025: copper for homes, blue for data centers. Each cable’s width is proportional to that year’s metered electricity in gigawatt-hours, all on one zero-based scale. Lengths and loops carry no data. Arrow keys move between cables; the full values are in the caption’s data link.

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Each pair of cables is one year, 2015 to 2025: copper for the electricity Ireland’s homes used, blue for its data centers. Width shows GWh on one scale. By 2025 data centers used 84% as much as every home in the country. Loops and lengths are decoration.

Central Statistics Office, Ireland, CC BY 4.0. Residential meters include some small businesses. All data centers, not only those used for language models.

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