Watch – Inside Cape Town’s data hub deal

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 SchuttersFilmed by: Joel SeboaEdited by: Joel SeboaProduced by: Emilie Gambade Creative input by: Malibongwe TyiloSub-edited by: Kim MaxwellSupport journalism that protects democracy. Become a Maverick Insider. ***Right now, there’s an OpenAI data centre being built near Sydney in Australia. Last week the developers decided to abandon their liquid cooling ambitions, for air cooling. It’s going to cost more on the electricity bill of an already colossal 612 megawatt AI node, but it’s a s