The City of Cape Town's Municipal Planning Tribunal has approved a contentious rezoning application for a new hyperscale data centre by Equinix, despite significant opposition from local groups concerned about environmental and community impacts.
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 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 a 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 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.
