Ireland’s tech sector cannot keep scaling through more data centres and more multinationals unless the State fixes two bottlenecks: a power grid still fed by imported fossil fuels and a workforce so overqualified it is sliding into underemployment.

Evidence For

• A €1bn, six-unit data centre campus near Rochfortbridge, Co Westmeath, has just been hit by ten planning appeals, including from the local Carey family. The bolt-on solar farm is not enough to end the land-use...