Taskforce finds current data centre site 'most suitable'
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A taskforce has found the current Mugga Lane tip site is the best location for the proposed data centre. (ABC News)
A taskforce set up to look for alternative sites for Canberra's controversial data centre project has presented several options to ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope.
A consortium including ActewAGL is planning to build a data centre and gas-fired power station near the Mugga Lane tip in Tuggeranong.
But the Greens and Liberals refuse to support the project being built on the current site.
In response, the ACT Government agreed to look at alternate locations.
Mr Stanhope will take the taskforce's proposals to Cabinet this afternoon to decide the Government's position.
While he will not reveal what options are on the table, Mr Stanhope says the current site near the Mugga Lane tip has been identified as the most suitable.
"It's identified a number of sites, [with] a number of issues in relation to each of them," he said.
"Interestingly ... what it has revealed through a very detailed and quite objective approach to assessing the benefits and the merits of different sites, given the Government advice that the existing site is the best that's been able to be identified."
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