Mayor halts 576MW data center plans in Moncalieri, Italy

Authorities in Moncalieri, Italy, have stopped processing a data center application from Moncalieri Logistics and real estate fund LCP. Mayor Lorenzo Mauro said the developer has not addressed environmental, energy consumption and jobs concerns; the ILTE site was bought in 2022 for €9 million.

• Project would have 576MW of capacity, 270,000 sqm of space and 320 permanent jobs
• LCP bought the former ILTE industrial site in 2022 for €9 million
• Application halted over unanswered environmental and energy questions
• Piedmont has 64 grid connection requests totaling 13.13GW