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Citizen groups demand a stop to building a data center in South Africa.

Citizen groups demand a stop to building a data center in South Africa.

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September 5th, 2026

Citizen groups demand a stop to building a data center in South Africa.

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๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ English

South African citizen groups are asking to stop building data centers.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์ด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ ๊ฑด์„ค์„ ๋ฉˆ์ถ”๋ผ๊ณ  ์š”๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

They say it must stop until water, land, and power use are studied.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ฌผ, ํ† ์ง€, ์ „๋ ฅ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์กฐ์‚ฌํ•  ๋•Œ๊นŒ์ง€ ๋ฉˆ์ถฐ์•ผ ํ•œ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

South Africa has 70 percent of Africa's data center capacity.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด๋Š” ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์˜ 70%๋ฅผ ๊ฐ€์ง€๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

American companies like Amazon, Microsoft, and Equinix are recently adding digital buildings in this country.

Amazon, Microsoft, Equinix ๊ฐ™์€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ ๊ธฐ์—…๋“ค์ด ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ด ๋‚˜๋ผ์—์„œ ๋””์ง€ํ„ธ ์‹œ์„ค์„ ๋Š˜๋ฆฌ๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค.

The South African Human Rights Commission asked for opinions in May this year.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ์ธ๊ถŒ ์œ„์›ํšŒ๋Š” ์˜ฌํ•ด 5์›” ์˜๊ฒฌ์„ ์š”์ฒญํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

After that, it got more than 250 answers.

๊ทธ ํ›„ 250๊ฑด ์ด์ƒ์˜ ๋‹ต๋ณ€์„ ๋ฐ›์•˜๋‹ค.

Doctor Eileen Carter of the commission said there is not enough information.

์œ„์›ํšŒ์˜ Eileen Carter ๋ฐ•์‚ฌ๋Š” ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ๋ถ€์กฑํ•˜๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

The information about electricity, water use, land use, and effects on nature is not clear.

์ „๊ธฐ์™€ ๋ฌผ ์ˆ˜์š”, ํ† ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ, ํ™˜๊ฒฝ ์˜ํ–ฅ์— ๋Œ€ํ•œ ์ •๋ณด๊ฐ€ ํˆฌ๋ช…ํ•˜์ง€ ์•Š๋‹ค๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด๋‹ค.

The Equinix building planned for Cape Town is at the center of the dispute.

์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด์— ์ง€์„ Equinix ์‹œ์„ค์ด ๋…ผ๋ž€์˜ ์ค‘์‹ฌ์ด๋‹ค.

This city had a water shortage in 2018.

์ด ๋„์‹œ๋Š” 2018๋…„์— ๋ฌผ ๋ถ€์กฑ์„ ๊ฒช์—ˆ๋‹ค.

That building will likely need 160 megawatts of power.

๊ทธ ์‹œ์„ค์€ 160๋ฉ”๊ฐ€์™€ํŠธ ์ „๋ ฅ์ด ํ•„์š”ํ•  ๊ฒƒ์œผ๋กœ ๋ณด์ธ๋‹ค.

South Africa's power company Eskom recently said it has extra power.

๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด ์ „๋ ฅ๊ณต์‚ฌ Eskom์€ ์ตœ๊ทผ ์ „๋ ฅ์ด ๋‚จ๋Š”๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ณด๊ณ ํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

But citizen groups worry about selling that extra power to data centers.

๊ทธ๋Ÿฌ๋‚˜ ์‹œ๋ฏผ๋‹จ์ฒด๋“ค์€ ๊ทธ ๋‚จ๋Š” ์ „๋ ฅ์„ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ์— ํŒŒ๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์„ ๊ฑฑ์ •ํ•œ๋‹ค.

Some experts think the request to stop is not saying no to investment.

์ผ๋ถ€ ์ „๋ฌธ๊ฐ€๋“ค์€ ์ค‘๋‹จ ์š”์ฒญ์ด ํˆฌ์ž๋ฅผ ๊ฑฐ๋ถ€ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ฒƒ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋ณธ๋‹ค.

They say it is for making clear rules.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋ช…ํ™•ํ•œ ๊ทœ์น™์„ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ธฐ ์œ„ํ•œ ๊ฒƒ์ด๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Pitso Tsibolane from the University of Cape Town said operators do not have to show how much water, power, and land they use.

์ผ€์ดํ”„ํƒ€์šด ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต์˜ Pitso Tsibolane์€ ์šด์˜์ž๋“ค์ด ๋ฌผ, ์ „๊ธฐ, ํ† ์ง€ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์„ ๊ณต๊ฐœํ•  ์˜๋ฌด๊ฐ€ ์—†๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

Data center operators say the worry is too big.

๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ ์šด์˜์ž๋“ค์€ ๊ฑฑ์ •์ด ๊ณผ์žฅ๋๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

They say South Africa's power need is much lower than America's.

๊ทธ๋“ค์€ ๋‚จ์•„ํ”„๋ฆฌ์นด์˜ ์ „๋ ฅ ์ˆ˜์š”๊ฐ€ ๋ฏธ๊ตญ๋ณด๋‹ค ํ›จ์”ฌ ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ•œ๋‹ค.

Sasha Booth-Beharilal heads the internet provider group. He said data centers do not cause power shortages or price rises.

์ธํ„ฐ๋„ท ์„œ๋น„์Šค ์ œ๊ณต์ž ํ˜‘ํšŒ ์˜์žฅ Sasha Booth-Beharilal์€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ์ „๋ ฅ ๋ถ€์กฑ์ด๋‚˜ ์š”๊ธˆ ์ธ์ƒ์˜ ์›์ธ์ด ์•„๋‹ˆ๋ผ๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

He added that local data centers use new technology that uses less water.

๊ทธ๋Š” ํ˜„์ง€ ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ ์„ผํ„ฐ๊ฐ€ ๋ฌผ ์‚ฌ์šฉ์„ ์ค„์ด๋Š” ์ƒˆ ๊ธฐ์ˆ ์„ ์“ด๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋ง๋ถ™์˜€๋‹ค.

He said that use is lower than the world average.

๊ทธ ์‚ฌ์šฉ๋Ÿ‰์€ ์„ธ๊ณ„ ํ‰๊ท ๋ณด๋‹ค ๋‚ฎ๋‹ค๊ณ  ๋งํ–ˆ๋‹ค.

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