The Polish arm of a US real estate developer has adapted the design of a planned 130MW data center campus southwest of Warsaw, central Poland, in response to local opposition.

Buildings at the facility developed by Hillwood Polska in the village of Reguły will now be reduced in size and built further away from residential neighborhoods. DCD has approached the firm for comment.

“We carefully considered residents' opinions and treated them as an important element of the project's development,” said Hillwood Polska’s data center development director, Ilona Śmigasiewicz, in a statement. “The changes significantly increase the investment's distance from residential development. A carefully landscaped green buffer will provide additional protection. We want the project to be modern, safe, and as environmentally neutral as possible.”

Hillwood Polska’s plans for a data center hub in Reguły were originally announced in December 2025 and called for the facility to be built on a 54-acre plot between the nearby commuter train line to Warsaw and an arterial road into the city.

The campus would encompass four separate buildings, constructed in phases, and support cloud computing applications, IT systems, internet services, and other corporate digital solutions.

Hillwood Polska is an arm of the US real estate developer Hillwood and owns and manages 22.6 million sq ft (2.1 million sqm) of warehouse space in Poland. Its data center project in Reguły attracted opposition from residents, reported TVP3 Warsaw, some of whom criticized the development for its potential to consume excessive amounts of water and electricity and generate localized noise pollution. Others said that the planning process for Hillwood Polska’s development was opaque.

There are currently 50 data centers listed in Warsaw by DataCenterMap. Hillwood Polska’s development in Reguły is not the first to attract local opposition. In August 2026, residents of the suburb of Józefosław sharply criticized developers for proposing a data center in the nearby district of Piaseczno, which they argued would exacerbate serious water pressure issues in their area.

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