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Reported geography
Source-reported location for RB Inyokern Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- R&L Capital, Inc.
- Address and locality
- Inyokern · Kern County · California
- Official metro area
- Bakersfield-Delano, CA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 99 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-001249
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
- Southern California Edison (SCE)
- Power source
- Grid
- Land area
- 55.54 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
- Announced investment
- $250 million
- Community response
- Provider label: mixed
- AI-use label (provider)
- likely
- Announced
- 8 May 2026
Provider notes
Energy. Primary power via a 115 kV grid interconnection; the 99 MW SPPE docket capacity is diesel backup generation, not the grid draw.
Community. Active opposition (Ridgecrest City Councilman Skip Gorman; the Indian Wells Valley groundwater basin is in critical overdraft, with water-use estimates ranging from the company's claim of 50 acre-ft/yr or less to opposition estimates of approximately 500 acre-ft/yr) alongside organized labor support - IBEW Local 47 and regional Building & Construction Trades Councils have filed CEC letters of support. Filed at 99 MW, just under the 100 MW threshold that would trigger a more rigorous CEC Application for Certification instead of the lighter SPPE exemption.
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- Cooling: 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
Unincorporated Kern County site south of West Inyokern Road (Hwy 178) and west of North Brown Road (APNs 084-010-43, -44, -45 portion; broader ~95-acre study area across 19 APNs). The CEC SPPE docket formally governs 40 diesel backup generator sets rated to 99 MW combined backup capacity, described by the CEC as not electrically interconnected to the transmission or distribution grid; primary power is a separate 115 kV interconnection to Southern California Edison. Proposer entities per the primary CEC filing: Intuva Inc. and Valley Wide Engineering & Construction, alongside applicant R&L Capital, Inc. (CEO Robbie Barker). Unconfirmed pending a direct read of the CEC Basis-of-Design filing: press claims of '6 modular data halls' and on-site canopy solar. Jobs figures are inconsistent across sources (30-60 permanent, 1,600 temporary construction, and a softer 530-total-including-indirect claim, all secondary/company-sourced) and are omitted from the structured jobs field for that reason. Investment (~$250M) is a company estimate reported by Tehachapi News, not seen in a primary filing. A Phase I cultural resources survey found no CRHR-eligible or tribal cultural resources (NAHC response negative, 2026-03-16). Distinct from the already-tracked Golden Valley Technology Hub (Beacon/CRC, Elk Hills) - different operator, site, capacity, and power model. Coordinates are an approximate road-intersection geocode near North Brown Road, not a parcel-confirmed point.
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
- 2026-05-08 · source-reported proposed
R&L Capital, Inc. filed a Small Power Plant Exemption (SPPE) application with the California Energy Commission (Docket 26-SPPE-01) for a phased 30-35 MW to 65-70 MW to 99 MW backup-generation buildout.
Sources and attribution
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- RB Inyokern Data Center - CEC backup generating system docket page · California Energy Commission
- CEC Docket Log - 26-SPPE-01 · California Energy Commission
- CEC filing TN 271058 - site/APN detail, SCE interconnection, phased capacity buildout · California Energy Commission
- Data center proposed in Inyokern draws water, other concerns in East Kern · Tehachapi News
- Say it isn't so: an AI data center is coming to downtown Inyokern · Roadrunner395
- Proposed Inyokern data center could use 12 to 16 million gallons of water annually · KGET 17
- AI Data Center Environmental Review: Proposed Inyokern Data Center Highlights Water-Use Concerns · Somach Law
- AI data center proposal draws opposition from Kern County residents · KERO 23ABC
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID rb-inyokern-data-center-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.
State or local registry record
What a state or local government record says naming this company in this city (no street is given in the record). The record is cited, not republished. It does not establish that a data center is operating, its capacity, or its owner or operator unless the record says that role. It is not added to the counts on this page.
Matched by name and city only. The government record names R&L Capital, Inc. in Inyokern and gives no street. It is shown here because this is the only published record with that name in that city; it may concern another site of the same company there.
RB Inyokern Data Center
- Publishing agency
- California Energy Commission
- Record type
- energy siting case
- Record identifiers
- 26-SPPE-01
- Named in the record
- R&L Capital, Inc.
- Status wording
- planned
- Location precision
- Inyokern only
What this record does not establish
- That a permit, certification, tax status, or application means an operating data center.
- Current IT capacity, utility load, or generation capacity.
- Who operates the site. A company named in the record is not the operator unless the record says so.
- Cooling redundancy. Mentioned equipment is not a design rating.
- Whether the record covers one building, a campus, or a suite, beyond the unit label the record itself uses.
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001249
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.
- AI-use label (provider): likely
Compute Atlas classification, not a DataCenterData finding.
Location and precision
- Inyokern, CA · Kern (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: R&L Capital, Inc.
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.
- Announced: 8 May 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-05-08 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 55.54 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 99 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: Southern California Edison (SCE)
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Announced investment: $250 million
Announced figure; whether it covers one building, a campus or a multi-phase program is not established.
- 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: Cooling, water, PUE and WUE · 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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