The Polish arm of United States real estate developer Hillwood has adapted the design of its planned 130 megawatt data center campus southwest of Warsaw in response to local opposition. Buildings at the facility in the village of Reguly will now be reduced in size and built further away from residential neighborhoods, with a landscaped green buffer.
“We carefully considered residents’ opinions and treated them as an important element of the project’s development,” Hillwood Polska’s data center development director Ilona Smigasiewicz said in a statement. “The changes significantly increase the investment’s distance from residential development.”
The plans were originally announced in December 2025 for a 54 acre plot between the commuter train line to Warsaw and an arterial road into the city, encompassing four buildings built in phases to support cloud computing, IT systems and other corporate digital services. Residents criticized the development for its potential to consume excessive amounts of water and electricity and to generate localized noise, and said the planning process was opaque, according to reporting by TVP3 Warsaw cited by Datacenter Dynamics.
Hillwood Polska owns and manages 22.6 million square feet of warehouse space in Poland. Reguly is not the first Warsaw area project to draw this response: in August 2026 residents of Jozefoslaw sharply criticized a proposed data center in the nearby district of Piaseczno, arguing it would worsen serious water pressure problems in their area.