Cape TownA filing confirms Equinix drives the airport data centres.
Co-developer Atterbury had called the application an inconsequential 280 square metre boundary correction.
Cape Town rewrote its by-law so data centres count as warehouses, after Equinix’s lawyers warned it would not invest otherwise.
Developers say water, power and cooling studies come at the site-plan stage, under a 2018 authorisation.
Mayor Geordin Hill-Lewis decides the appeal next, and the Legal Resources Centre may seek High Court review.
How each outlet framed it
- Daily Maverick leans critical
- traces the appeal to Equinix's counsel warning, which prompted the City to amend its by-law to define data centres as warehouses
Sources: Daily Maverick