Plans for a new 120MW data center in the town of Travagliato, in the northern Italian region of Lombardy, have fallen through.. East Gate, the developer that submitted the application to the municipality 10 months ago, withdrew its application for the new facility, according to reporting by Corriere della Sera..
The Blossom Avenue-designed logistics center – The Blossom Avenue. “Yes, the proponents withdrew the building application for the implementation plan,” Mayor Renato Pasinetti confirmed in comments reported by the newspaper.. Pasinetti added that the province of Brescia “will have no choice” but to shelve the application for grid connection as no additional information has been submitted..
He said that the Travagliato municipality never received the data necessary for a complete environmental impact assessment or to assess the 120MW grid connection.. East Gate’s plans included a data center designed by urban planning firm The Blossom Avenue Partners within a 1.4 million sq ft (130,000 sqm) site in an industrial area outside the town of Travagliato..
It was expected that the project would have provided more than €11 million ($12.5m) to the local municipality, according to a report commissioned by The Blossom Avenue Partners from Te.A. Consulting, including €524,715 ($598,707) in compensation for building on agricultural land..
Travagliato had firmly rejected the data center last month, although some minority groups were calling for the activation of the municipal council to identify suitable urban planning strategies for the project.. “We’ve always said we weren’t against the project outright, as long as the process and its environmental impacts were thoroughly assessed by experts,” Pasinetti said in another interview with Corriere della Sera.
“To do that, we wanted the data. Which never arrived.”. The plans were also opposed by residents who raised concerns about the energy and environmental impact of the facility, with an online petition attracting almost 10,000 signatures..
East Gate was approached for comment.. Lombardy, particularly the Milan metropolitan area, has become a target for data center development in Italy, with 65 facilities listed in the region by DataCenters.com.. This data center boom is also attracting opposition from residents, including recent protests against a 240MW development in the town of Magenta..
Against this background, Lombardy’s government recently passed Regional Law No.11/2026, Italy’s first regulatory framework for the approval of data centers. The law is intended to promote the sustainability of new developments and their construction on brownfield sites, among other measures..
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