I dont really get the point this article is trying to make. It pulls all sorts of unrelated information in it like the Irish civil war and the poverty in the past, but what's the point really?

The datacenters don't offer Ireland much, they hardly provide much employment and they use a lot of electricity. But they have to be somewhere. Ireland is a pretty scarcely populated country with low temperatures as the article mentions so it makes sense to have them there.

In terms of its reliance on the tech sector Ireland has much bigger problems like a "privacy regulator" that's nothing more than a string puppet for big tech.