Environmental groups have raised concerns about the amounts of energy consumed by data centres

5% of Ireland job postings mention data centres - Indeed

30 Sep 2026, 23:08 by Brian O'Donovan, https://www.facebook.com/rtenews/ · RTE.ie

Just under 5% of all job postings on the Indeed hiring platform now mention data centres.

This is roughly double the share seen between 2019 and 2025 and, according to Indeed, the highest proportion among ten European countries analysed by the platform.

Indeed's research found that European employers advertise higher pay for data centre roles than for the same occupations elsewhere.

"The largest premiums are generally seen among workers directly tied to data centre sites, including installation and maintenance roles," according to Indeed.

Pawel Adrjan, Senior Director of Economic Research for EMEA and APAC at Indeed, said data centre hiring is one of the few areas of growth in tech-adjacent hiring at a time when wider tech postings remain under pressure.

"Ireland stands out particularly strongly, with nearly 5% of job postings now mentioning a data centre, roughly twice the share we have seen in recent years," Mr Adrjan said.

An effective moratorium on new data centre connections was lifted in December last year when the Commission for the Regulation of Utilities announced that data centres could be built where they meet at least 80% of their annual energy demand through new renewable electricity sources.

In June, the Government published a report that it commissioned, at a cost of €100,000, in support of data centres.

It claimed that since 2010, €22 billion had been added to the Irish economy, an additional 17,000 jobs have been created, and €2.8 billion in tax has been collected because of data centres.

Environmental groups have raised concerns about the amounts of energy consumed by data centres.

The percentage share of total metered electricity consumption used by data centres rose to 23% in 2025, up from 22% in 2024 and just 5% in 2015.

It is estimated that the energy consumption level by data centres will grow to almost a third of the national electricity demand by 2030.