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  "id": 3014512,
  "title": "Irish lawmakers reconsider the country's 1999 ban on nuclear power as data centers' growing power demands account for ~25% of the country's electricity use (Jude Webber/Financial Times)",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/24/irish-lawmakers-reconsider-the-countrys-1999-ban-on-nuclear-power-as",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-24T11:45:53.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://www.ft.com/content/d8279eab-023e-4403-8f0f-b0b64393dcbb?accessToken=zwAAAaAwOfykkdPYJ56rAj5EA9OPD7C2Q5Pcuw.MEUCIGNoUOFwljxnFaNPq_k1emHkmOhu3qcoR2LSfVs7khicAiEAsqubc_1hfgHuPIy7ZBPUJ81CjC604iyMunWsrta2oaQ&sharetype=gift&token=6eb6e0df-2345-420f-bab7-6653b920f922&syn-25a6b1a6=1"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Banned by law since 1999, Dublin reconsiders atomic energy — Rising electricity consumption by Ireland's insatiable data centres …",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}