There's a declaration that a 915 MW power-plant was removed from the grid, and moved to emergency status only.

However, every other number in the piece is mentioned as some multiple of Wh's (GWh typically). That makes it very hard to tell what proportion of capacity was removed from the system as a proportion of the total generating capacity. I think the writer might have served us better with the use of some helpful percentage comparisons.

From the SEAI report (2024) (https://www.seai.ie/data-and-insights/seai-statistics/key-pu...)

- Electricity demand in Ireland was 32.9 TWh in 2024, up 4.1% on 2023-levels

- Commercial services, which includes the ICT sub-sector, accounted for 41.2% of electricity demand.

- The residential sector accounted for 25.5% of electricity demand in 2024.

- Data centres accounted for 21.2% of all electricity demand in 2024.

- Data centres account for 88.2% of the increase observed in Ireland’s electricity demand since 2015.

If I've done my math correctly, Moneypoint generates about 8TWh, if operating continuously; which it's probably not. Can we say 6-7 TWh?

That is not an insubstantial portion of the total.

It's a crude blade to avoid the issues of AI pollution of weekly submissions, of which few teachers have much confidence that the submission itself was actually written by the student - who's assumed to be learning something.

The OP was about students dumbing down their own work to avoid AI detectors ratting them out. That seems like a big loss.

Genuinely interested. What was the final like? This seems more in the experimental science (ok, journalism) category. I may have to adjust my thinking to be more expansive and also include things like "vocational".

In the simplest case, where we'll say the exam question was precisely the topic of the 20 page paper, the candidate would be golden. Of course, it's unlikely in a 3 hr. exam that you'll be asked to write a 20 page response; but in edited form, you could definitely produce three cogent pages about some particular aspect of the original paper - if you've done the work. If you truly wrote the 20 page paper, you can surely produce three literate, cogent, responsive and topical pages.

Yes. There will be no other marks available for adjusting a final grade. One test, one mark. One knows the stuff, or one doesn't.

Accommodations are real and necessary, but applied at the end.

(Experimental sciences are an exception)