Equinix’s plans to build two data centers in Cape Town, South Africa, are closer to completion after the Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal gave approval for the rezoning of an approximately 37-acre land parcel near the city’s airport.
The company intends to build both facilities in King Air Industrial, a logistics and industrial hub on Pallotti Road.
– Cape Town Municipal Planning Tribunal
The company has already acquired zoning approval for the first data center, which will take up around 50,000 sqm (538,195 sq ft) of space, but previously had not secured zoning approval for a second 72,542 sqm (780,835 sq ft) data center.
This is because the King Air Industrial hub had allocated its land across four different land use categories. Data centers are included under one of those categories – General Industry – but they do not have their own use category, and the construction of Equinix’s second data center would require the re-allocation of land from other use categories to a newly created ‘data center’ category.
