Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-back
The data centre was being developed by Goodman Group, Australia's biggest property company, and would have seen it construct a A$1.2bn (£630m; $841m), 90-megawatt facility known as Project Mars in the Lane Cove area.The company confirmed it was withdrawing its application in a letter to the local planning authority. It follows a concerted opposition against the data centre by local residents and campaigners. The dispute captures a wider disagreement in Australia over the role of data centres.
- ▪The data centre was being developed by Goodman Group, Australia's biggest property company, and would have seen it construct a A$1.2bn (£630m; $841m), 90-megawatt facility known as Project Mars in the Lane Cove area.The company confirmed it
- ▪It follows a concerted opposition against the data centre by local residents and campaigners.
- ▪The dispute captures a wider disagreement in Australia over the role of data centres.
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- ▪ Plan for controversial $1.2bn datacentre in Sydney scrapped due to ‘emerging’ regulations — The Guardian — World
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Plan for controversial Sydney data centre scrapped after push-backImage source, ReutersImage caption, A sign campaigning against the centre displayed outside a home in a Sydney suburbByMichael Sheils McNameePublished6 minutes agoPlans for a data centre which would have been built metres from people's homes in a Sydney suburb have been scrapped following intense push-back by campaigners. The data centre was being developed by Goodman Group, Australia's biggest property company, and would have seen it construct a A$1.2bn (£630m; $841m), 90-megawatt facility known as Project Mars in the Lane Cove area.The company confirmed it was withdrawing its application in a letter to the local planning authority.
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