AustraliaSMH.com.au‘Too much heat’: How residents beat a $1.2b data centre
Goodman Group has abandoned its $1.2 billion data centre plan in Sydney's Lane Cove West after overwhelming community opposition, the third such withdrawal in Australia in five months.
Lane Cove residents are planning a street party. The rest of the data centre industry has a problem.
Property giant Goodman Group scrapped its $1.2 billion Project Mars data centre in Lane Cove West after 374 public submissions, with only nine in favour.
The proposed 90-megawatt facility would have sat about 20 metres from the nearest home and 160 metres from a local primary school.
With 41 data centre projects in Sydney's pipeline and AI demand surging, where these facilities can actually be built has become a multibillion-dollar national problem.
Sydney alone has 41 state-significant data centre projects in the pipeline, so if you live near industrial or semi-industrial land, it may be worth checking local planning notices.
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