{"id":70,"date":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/?p=70"},"modified":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T04:56:55","slug":"3-5bn-data-center-planned-for-new-zealand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/3-5bn-data-center-planned-for-new-zealand\/","title":{"rendered":"$3.5bn data center planned for New Zealand"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Singapore-based company Datagrid has been approved to build a data center in New Zealand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to their website, it will be used for:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AI training, processing and data storage and will serve global AI and cloud providers<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If it is built, it will be the country&#8217;s second-largest electricity user.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to an Environment Southland regional council report, the company has approval to:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Discharge air contaminants from up to 84 diesel back-up generators<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Draw up to 604,800 litres of groundwater per day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Discharge up to 5000 litres of treated wastewater a day<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Remove a nearby wetland<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local residents are worried about their air, water, nature, and noise pollution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2026\/jul\/10\/new-zealand-first-datacentre-concern-locals-makarewa-invercargill-datagrid\">Read more at The Guardian<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Singapore-based company Datagrid has been approved to become the second-largest electricity user in the entire country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":71,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,11],"tags":[46,44,42,47,43,45],"class_list":["post-70","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ai-news","category-bad-stuff","tag-air-pollution","tag-data-center","tag-datagrid","tag-diesel-generator","tag-new-zealand","tag-noise-pollution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70\/revisions\/72"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madebyhumans.international\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}