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spir-12979	Brodie, Patrick	EMERALD EXTRACTIVISM: BORDERS, ENERGY, AND DATA INFRASTRUCTURES IN IRELAND	2023.0	4	.pdf	application/pdf	1333	86	50	But as Dublin maintains one of the highest concentrations of data centers in the world, primarily from US big tech “hyperscalers” (AWS, Facebook, Google, Microsoft) which have availed of the country’s low corporate tax rate, the presence and influence of these companies has been profound in shaping ROI’s current energy plans, which need to account for the expected ongoing growth of data centers (Bresnihan and Brodie, 2021). Data centers are thus clearly a crucial element in how contemporary digital systems are assembled across different environmental and territorial formations, but the extent of their influence on wider infrastructural arrangements and externalities is not yet widely understood.	cache/spir-12979.pdf	txt/spir-12979.txt