The Daily Populous

Saturday July 25th, 2026 evening edition

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IRELAND’S LARGEST DATA centres used close to one billion litres of water last year, a new investigation by The Journal Investigates has found.

In total, at least 1.7 billion litres of water have been used by data centres from the public supply over the past two years.

A government study from 2022 suggested that data centres used roughly 810 million litres of water a year.

At least 1.7 billion litres of water has been used by data centres connected to the public water supply since 2024, according to figures examined by our team.

They added that “modern data centres use relatively small volumes of water” and that “not all data centres use water from the Uisce Éireann network.”.

Over four billion litres of water were used from the public supply by these pharmaceutical giants in the last two years – more than double that of Ireland’s data centres.

Pfizer’s plant in Grange Castle, which is surrounded by a cluster of data centres in south-west Dublin, used 1.2 billion litres of water in the last two years, matched only by Meta’s data centre campus. »

How Trump upended the Saudi nuclear deal less than 24 hours after its signing

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Two sets of American and Saudi flags were placed on stage and on the table where Energy Secretary Chris Wright was seated.

The deal, in the mind of some Trump aides, was not finalized since letters required to be sent to Congress hadn’t gone out.

(Israel, which possesses nuclear weapons, opposes any arrangements that could allow an Arab country to get a nuclear bomb.). »

‘I’m over the moon’: New York’s small business owners rejoice as Mamdani cuts red tape

Authored by theguardian.com
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The video, set to Wu Tang Clan’s If Time Is Money, shows Mamdani joining a handful of city officials and small business owners throwing the resulting paper shreds into the air like confetti.

At a press conference in the Bronx, Mamdani listed some of the onerous policies getting the axe.

Bodega owners will no longer need a separate license to sell the same products outside the store – like fruit and flowers – as inside. »

Baby monkey Punch to celebrate first birthday

Authored by yahoo.com
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