Aisling Breen

Technology Correspondent, The Continental Times

Aisling covers technology for The Continental Times and has reported from more than a dozen countries.

Ireland’s Data Center Boom Collides With Its Grid, and Cloud Builders Start Looking North

With data centers consuming nearly a quarter of the country’s electricity, a new rule requiring developers to bring their own power is pushing projects across the border and overseas.

Oct. 10, 2026 6 MIN READ

Rows of servers inside a data center west of Dublin, a region that hosts more than 80 such facilities.

A Visitor From Another Star Is Venting Carbon Dioxide, and Astronomers Are Racing to Catch It

The fourth interstellar object ever found is outgassing as it nears the Sun, offering a rare chemical sample of a planetary system that is not our own.

Oct. 9, 2026 6 MIN READ

Telescope domes at the Paranal Observatory in Chile’s Atacama Desert, where the interstellar comet is being tracked nightly.

Laser Survey Finds a Roman Marching Camp in the Highlands, Far Beyond Where the Legions Were Thought to Stop

The 23-hectare enclosure, invisible on the ground, suggests a Roman army of 20,000 pushed 90 kilometers farther north than any previously known camp.

Oct. 9, 2026 5 MIN READ

A glen in the Scottish Highlands north of Inverness, where airborne laser scanning revealed the outline of a Roman camp.