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California / CA

California data center and compute infrastructure research

This state has reviewed research coverage from the national 50-state Atlas. Exact project locations are published only after source evidence establishes coordinates; state-level, regulatory, utility and prospective evidence remains visible without inventing map precision.

8reviewed research rows
2confirmed rows
6accepted prospective rows
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California

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State research coverage

California is part of the 50-state research coverage.

The current reviewed research set contains 8 accepted evidence records for California, including 2 confirmed and 6 accepted prospective rows, with a research cutoff of 2026-08-20. These are evidence records, not a count of unique facilities.

Prospective records remain labeled as proposals, applications, forecasts, targets, queue entries or other non-operational states. The Atlas does not convert state-level or locality evidence into a precise project point unless a controlling source supports that location.

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Evidence-backed project locations

California project points

Source-exact records use supported coordinates. Dashed rings mark Census address-range geocodes, not rooftop or surveyed coordinates. Qualified research candidates are shown separately at Census locality or county centroids when that is the strongest source-backed geography; those markers do not claim a precise site coordinate.

15 mapped locations
CP23-008San JoséResearch candidate · locality centroid · exact site coordinate not claimed · environmental reviewTwo four-story data-center buildings totaling approximately 630,000 sq ft, water storage tanks, utility buildings, customer-owned substation, and PG&E high-voltage switching station.verified municipal registerOpen source →
Documented project / site inventory

42 project, facility, campus or documented site records are tracked for CA.

This project layer combines available project-profile, permit/intent and civic-impact evidence. Records retain unresolved location precision and limitations rather than inventing coordinates.

unknown state or regional

1231 Comstock Data Center

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

proposed or review locality centroid

Berkeley CA

Berkeley · CA

64 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

unknown state or regional

CP23-008

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown state or regional

CP23-013

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

operational exact coordinate

Digital Realty SFO10

SAN FRANCISCO · CA

Operator / developer: Digital Realty

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

operational exact coordinate

Digital Realty SJC11

SANTA CLARA · CA

Operator / developer: Digital Realty

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

operational exact coordinate

Equinix SV12x

SAN JOSE · CA

Operator / developer: Equinix

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

operational exact coordinate

Equinix SV3

SAN JOSE · CA

Operator / developer: Equinix

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

operational exact coordinate

Equinix SV4

SUNNYVALE · CA

Operator / developer: Equinix

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

unknown locality centroid

Imperial County Aten and Clark Data Center Complex

Imperial city · CA

18 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

operational exact coordinate

NTT Sacramento CA3

SACRAMENTO · CA

Operator / developer: NTT Global Data Centers

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

operational exact coordinate

NTT Silicon Valley SV1

SANTA CLARA · CA

Operator / developer: NTT Global Data Centers

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

unknown state or regional

PD25-011 Option B

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown state or regional

PD25-013

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown state or regional

PD25-015 Option B

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown locality centroid

Prime SMF02 Sacramento Data Center

Sacramento city · CA

18 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

unknown locality centroid

PSP Investments Santa Clara CA

Santa Clara · CA

Operator / developer: PSP Investments

Documented capacity: 51 MW

32 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

unknown state or regional

San José Microsoft Data Center

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown locality centroid

Sify Technologies Santa Clara CA

Santa Clara · CA

Operator / developer: Sify Technologies

32 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

unknown state or regional

SP26-016

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown state or regional

SP26-020

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

unknown state or regional

SP26-022

CA

18 linked evidence rows · coordinate not inferred

operational exact coordinate

STACK SVY01

SAN JOSE · CA

Operator / developer: STACK Infrastructure

5 linked evidence rows · source-backed coordinate

unknown locality centroid

TDK San Diego CA

San Diego · CA

Operator / developer: TDK

0

44 linked evidence rows · locality centroid; exact site unresolved

Public records and supporting context

Development context

These dated decisions, filings, research collections and supporting-infrastructure records provide context. They are not additional data-center facilities.

Public agency starting point

City of Fremont Planning Division

Fremont, Alameda County · Published departmental or organizational contact

Contact about: Could you identify current industrial-use classifications and public project files showing operational descriptions, infrastructure reviews and conditions of approval?

planinfo@fremont.gov

Source status: historical indexed or mixed. Verify the linked public source before relying on an assignment because staff and routing can change.

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State contact routing

Where to start in California

Current source-backed route

California State University, Dominguez Hills

Contact about: Community-engaged research and public evidence around infrastructure decisions.

This route was retained from current or recently revalidated public-source evidence.

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Who to contact

Public contacts for data center and compute issues in California

1 source-backed contact records are available for planning, zoning, permitting, public comments, economic development, project questions and related infrastructure issues. Verify the linked source before relying on a contact because assignments can change.

PUBLIC CONTACT

Caroline Bhalla

Director of Civic Engagement, Lusk Center for Real Estate · Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC)

Relevant to: Civic data intermediary · Los Angeles / Los Angeles County neighborhoods, cities, and census tracts

Exchange practical lessons on making neighborhood-scale infrastructure, environmental, housing, and public-service data understandable to residents; discuss how a source-backed civic research project could adapt NDSC’s map-and-story approach for data-center…

Contact details: Caroline Bhalla; Director of Civic Engagement, Lusk Center for Real Estate; Neighborhood Data for Social Change (NDSC); cbhalla@usc.edu

cbhalla@usc.edu

Limitation: Do not claim NDSC has studied data centers, supports a particular siting position, endorses Compute Equity Project, or has agreed to collaborate. Do not imply verified…

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