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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Golden Valley Technology Hub.
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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Beacon Data Centers (w/ California Resources Corp)
- Address and locality
- Elk Hills · Kern County · California
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 275 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 19 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000173
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
- 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 1.33.0, 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.
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