Members of the Housing Assembly demonstrated outside the Cape Town Civic Centre on Tuesday, as the City of Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal heard objections concerning a proposed 174 MVA hyperscale data centre development at King Air Industria.
The City of Cape Town’s Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) has supported an application for the rezoning of a hyperscale data centre development at King Air Industria despite vehement opposition by Housing Assembly and Foxglove, who submitted that “people cannot eat or drink data, or network and connectivity”.
This is for a second data centre by Equinix.
They submitted their rezoning application from “Mixed Use” to “General Industrial” for the proposed development, which forms part of plans for a 174 MVA data centre facility at King Air Industria (KAI) - an industrial development on land owned by the King David Golf Club.
The Housing Assembly and Foxglove argue that the publicly available application does not provide adequate information about water consumption, electricity demand, emissions, diesel generators and fuel storage, air pollution, cooling systems, and the design and scale of the proposed buildings.
