Area of work: Foxglove and Housing Assembly vs Equinix (Cape Town Data Centre)

NEW CASE: Foxglove and housing campaigners appeal against Cape Town hyperscale data centre after US Big Tech firm leaves huge gaps in critical planning information

Equinix refuses to provide even the most basic information required for the community to consent to the data centre’s construction. 

PRESS RELEASE: Civil society calls on Human Rights Commission to investigate the human rights impacts of South Africa’s data centre boom

South Africa is experiencing the fastest data centre expansion on the continent. Civil society and housing campaigners are calling for a pause.

What happened in Cape Town this week

Big Tech has said as little as possible about the huge harms data centres can cause – and is leaving the community to pick up the pieces.

Press release: US data centre gets approval in South Africa despite unknown impact on water and power

The Municipal Planning Tribunal (MPT) in Cape Town has  approved the application of a US Big Tech company to start developing …

The AI power grab nobody voted for: recapping our London Climate Action Week panel

Two weeks ago, Foxglove brought together lawyers, campaigners and economists to ask are Big Tech data centres powering a fairer future, or costing the earth?

Foxglove and South African housing movement object to new hyperscale data centre over critical gaps in water, energy and environmental information! 

The objection says a new 160 MVA data centre can’t be approved as no information has been provided on water, emissions or environmental impact.