>What's the word for this type of propaganda, where they add in some sort of adjective that wasn't needed, in order to prime the reader on how to think/feel, rather than just objectively reporting the facts?

It's called an editorial.

It's not supposed to be a mere report, concerned with respecting any random person's feeling about how all electricity consumption is equally valid and should be equally respected.

Journalism is allowed to have an opinion, that doesn't make it propaganda.

I haven't found a single source of Irish power mix over time but what I did find suggests that the amount of renewable power in Ireland has been spiking aggressively in recent years. I see something like 15% in 2024 from one source and >40% in 2026 from another. One chart (which I just found reproduced on wikipedia) of wind power is going up at like 600 GWh per year.

> They could have just written "Irish datacenters now use 23% of the country's electricity".

That's objectively described by "guzzle".

Is The Register known for objectively reporting facts? If so, I have fundamentally misunderstood it for a quarter century.

First time reading The Register, is it? Because I would expect no less from such a pillar of journalism as them.

I see you've never read The Register before. Their whole value proposition is "here is computing news from cynical, snarky viewpoint". Their motto "Biting the hand that feeds IT" has vanished from the masthead but it's still in their footer.

Guess if people who write articles like LLMs

"Unwanted industrial users consuming over 1/5th Ireland's electricity."

(Ireland has challenges getting enough renewable energy to the island, as well as connecting the northern and southern parts with transmission due to local citizens not friendly to the need for transmission infra; data centers do not belong in Ireland, build them in countries in Europe that have excess clean energy, Spain and France specifically, and eat any latency as unavoidable)

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