A golf course became a R3-billion logistics hub. Now it’s set to house two of Cape Town’s biggest data centres. Daily Maverick’s Lindsey Schutters reports on a R100 land-swap, a data centre reclassified as a “warehouse”, and the environmental assessment that’s been pushed down the road.
Reporting by: Lindsey Schutters
Filmed by: Joel Seboa
Edited by: Joel Seboa
Produced by: Emilie Gambade
Creative input by: Malibongwe Tyilo
Sub-edited by: Kim Maxwell
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Why this isn’t a water story
0:54 Lindsey Schutters reports: from golf course to King Air Industria
1:48 Enter Equinix: two hyperscale data centres move in
2:12 The tribunal approves, 4 to 1
2:53 Inside the land-swap: R100 for 280 square metres
3:38 The 160MVA switching station, and who’s paying
4:21 The loophole: how a data centre became a "warehouse"
5:26 Seven years, seven amendments
6:02 The missing environmental assessment
6:23 A governance gap in "Mzansi’s best run city"
