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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Golden Valley Technology Hub.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Beacon Data Centers (w/ California Resources Corp)
- Address and locality
- Elk Hills · Kern County · California
- Official metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 275 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 29 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000173
Reported details
Source-reported by Compute Atlas; not independently verified by DataCenterData. Provider wording is kept; long provider notes are shortened and marked …; unknown is not zero; none of these values is totaled, ranked or compared.
- Electric utility
- Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
- Power source
- On-site gas
- Cooling
- Closed-loop
- Land area
- 100 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
Provider notes
Energy. Primary power is 275 MW of surplus output from CRC's adjacent 550 MW Elk Hills natural-gas combined-cycle plant (CUP applied for June 2026); grid connection retained as backup. See elk-hills-power-plant-tupman-ca.
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- Provider community note: The community note names a private resident quoted in local press, so the note is held out of the public page.
- Announced construction jobs: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
- Announced permanent jobs: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
- Provider water note: Previously held pending provider-field review. The concern has not been resolved by an independent source review for this captured edition; the field remains withheld.
What the source record says
400,000 sq ft on 100 acres, dedicated 275MW from CRC's own Elk Hills natural gas power plant, closed-loop cooling. Standalone campus on former oilfield, not a colo tenancy.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2026 · source-reported proposed
Sources and attribution
These sources are listed for the whole row. Unless a figure links to its own source, the provider does not mark which one gave it, so a figure may not appear in every source.
- Canada's Beacon DC targets 275MW data center campus on California oil field · Data Center Dynamics
- Golden Valley Technology Hub · goldenvalleytechhub.com
- CRC proposes W. Kern data center with dedicated power, closed-loop cooling · The Bakersfield Californian
- HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD
- Massive AI data center proposed for Kern County's Elk Hills · Turn to 23 (KERO-TV, Bakersfield)
- A solution to data center backlash? Put them in oil fields. · Grist
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID beacon-golden-valley-ca. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added. Some locations in this layer are reported by the provider as derived from OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL, https://www.openstreetmap.org/copyright) and Epoch AI (CC BY 4.0).
Compute Atlas 1.34.1 with retained prior rows and publication holds. This is a DataCenterData composite, not an unmodified publisher edition. This row uses the captured source from 1.34.1, source as of 2026-10-14T20:40:52.293Z.
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Recorded information
What this page records, grouped by topic, with the source's units and qualifications. Company-reported values stay labeled as company-reported. Related listings are shown separately.
Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-000173
Licensed directory row.
Provider notes and the source narrative are printed on this page and are not repeated here.
Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- Elk Hills, CA · Kern (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Beacon Data Centers (w/ California Resources Corp)
Operator label as published by the provider; no parent company is inferred.
Lifecycle
- Source-stated status: source-reported proposed
Provider status label; not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is operating.
- Status history: 2026 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 100 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 275 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Electric utility: Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Closed-loop
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: mixed
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-29
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Connectivity · Services · Certifications and design ratings · Rack density · Availability · Specification links and contact.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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