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# Hallucination findings: Recommendation of the Council on Digital Technologies and the Environment (2025 Revision)

- **Regulation.** [`OECD-DIGITAL-TECHNOLOGIES-ENVIRONMENT-2025`](/okf/regulations/OECD-DIGITAL-TECHNOLOGIES-ENVIRONMENT-2025.md) — Recommendation of the Council on Digital Technologies and the Environment (2025 Revision)
- **Regulator.** [`OECD-INT-001`](/okf/bodies/OECD-INT-001.md)
- **Audience.** general
- **Methodology.** 2.0
- **Generated.** 2026-06-08T09:47:29.689779+00:00

## Full whitepaper

# Hallucination findings, Recommendation of the Council on Digital Technologies and the Environment (2025 Revision)

_Jurisdiction: INT ; Body: OECD-INT-001 ; Regulation: OECD-DIGITAL-TECHNOLOGIES-ENVIRONMENT-2025_

This page lists each instance in which a tested AI assistant produced an answer that the regulator's own published text contradicts. Each row links the assistant's claim, the contradicting regulator text, and the status of any source the assistant cited.

**Citation status legend**:
- _Fabricated_, the URL the assistant cited does not exist as a public document.
- _Inaccessible_, the URL exists but its content is not available for public verification.
- _Accessible-but-contradicts-claim_, the URL is reachable and its content does not support the assistant's claim.

**Question text below is paraphrased to protect IP** in the underlying question bank.

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| # | Subject | Question (paraphrased) | Assistant claim | Regulator says | Cited source(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sonnet-46-websearch | What share of Ireland's 2021 metered electricity did data centres account for, per the figure cited in the OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024 chapter (sourced from Ireland's CSO 2023)? | Data centres consumed **14%** of Ireland's total metered electricity in 2021, a figure drawn from Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO, 2023) and cited in the OECD Digital Economy Outlook 2024. [...] The data-centre share of metered electricity rose from 5% in 2015 to 14% in 2021, 18% in 2022,  | data centre energy consumption increased by 144% between 2015 and 2020, accounting for 11% of metered electricity consumed in the country in 2021 (Central Statistics Office, 2023) |, |

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_Published: 2026-06-08T09:47:29.551844+00:00_

## Related concepts

- Regulation: [OECD-DIGITAL-TECHNOLOGIES-ENVIRONMENT-2025](/okf/regulations/OECD-DIGITAL-TECHNOLOGIES-ENVIRONMENT-2025.md)
- Regulator: [OECD-INT-001](/okf/bodies/OECD-INT-001.md)
- Methodology: [v2.3](/okf/methodology.md)