MDIPS
“ Data centres may have given back tax revenue, but we’ ve come to a bit of a not-in-my-backyard sentiment,” admits Rhea.
The scale of modern data centre development requires co-location with complementary industrial and manufacturing facilities. A gigawatt campus generates demand for warehousing, structured cabling, containerisation and other supporting industries.
“ When we talk about a gigawatt, can you imagine how much warehousing that’ s going to need?
How many plugs? How much structured cabling you’ re going to need in order to actually do that?” Rhea asks.“ So there’ s a tremendous amount of industry, structured steel, cement and containerisation, that’ s going to be needed in order to support these data centre campuses.”
The company’ s MDIPs allocate land and power for these associated industries while building out municipal services including water treatment. This approach creates what Rhea describes as community growth that supports the grid network through interconnection.
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