Business Today: Delaying data centres, Kingspan and Grenfell and from Google to Leinster Rugby

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Shane Nolan seems comfortable with change. The man who was in his playing days a rugby prop looks closer in stature these days to a full back. So maybe it shouldn’t have come as any great surprise when he made the leap from the senior executive ranks of the Irish business of search engine giant

It’s already proving challenging to produce more green electricity, especially with new wind farms facing planning obstacles. However, the huge increase in electricity demand from data centres makes it harder to achieve overall reductions in emissions from electricity generation, writes. We need to increase the capacity of the generation system and of the grid, given the extra demand, while at the same time trying to replace old fossil fuel plants. That’s a big job and isn’t easy to achieve.

The Irish group may have been unaware contractors on the Grenfell Tower used its K15 panels for a small part of the insulation when there were supply problems with Celotex’s boards, the product specified by those responsible for the refurbishment.But the inquiry heard that K15 passed a fire safety test in 2005 when it was placed behind non-combustible cladding. That meant the product should only have been used in high-rise buildings with this type of tested cladding.

US research firm Irrational Capital has created a novel approach to stock picking that largely abandons traditional financial metrics in favour of a system designed to select companies based on how happy their workers are. Will Schmitt reports.daily email news digest.

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