A landowner northeast of Calgary is fighting back against proposed plans to develop his land into a new data centre complex.

The land owned by Wayne Shuttleworth is in Rocky View County, just northeast of Calgary’s city limits. It’s been in his family for over 100 years, and it’s in the crosshairs of being acquired by a large corporation.

That corporation, Kineticor, proposed an Area Structure Plan earlier this year. The plan would convert Shuttleworth’s 1,120-acre oat field into a large-scale technology infrastructure.

The site, north of Highway 566 and west of Range Road 281, is ideal, according to the planner. Citing its proximity to electrical transmission lines.

Shuttleworth is fighting back against plans to develop it with an application to the county.

“This particular data plac

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