These included the opportunity cost of supporting data centres instead of housing, calls for mandated sustainability targets on water and energy use, and the impact of farmland used for data centre development. One aspect raised in the draft version is whether the infrastructure support and investment provided to data centres “could be more impactful if directed toward public services like transport or housing”. But this point, and all mention of housing, was cut from the final report, with the executive summary stating that the report “is not a cost-benefit analysis”. These are data centres that are not “critical to domestic operations”, such as supporting government, finance, and essential services, and do not “underpin Ireland’s day-to-day operational resilience”. Because of this, the draft report suggests that these data centres could move to other European countries “without disruption to domestic services”.