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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Terra Data Center.
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Terra Ventures
- Address and locality
- 4701 North First Street · San Jose · Santa Clara County · California
- Official metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 12 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- reported (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001444
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.
- Power source
- On-site gas
- Land area
- 9 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Provider notes
Energy. Design pairs Bloom Energy natural-gas fuel cells with absorption chillers that use the fuel cells' waste heat to make chilled water, reported as intended to remove the need for traditional backup generators.
What the source record says
Filed with San Jose's planning department as a revised proposal (reported April 2025) on a site previously approved in 2018 for an entertainment/hotel complex that was never built. Two buildings proposed: a three-story, 295,100 sq ft data center and a 167,400 sq ft energy-supply hub (~462,500 sq ft total), designed by CallisonRTKL. A second phase is reported to include a greenhouse heated by data-center waste heat, supplying a community retail store. Widely reported elsewhere as the largest data center proposed in California to date (a 417 MW figure appears in aggregator listings), but this session could not confirm the MW figure via a source it directly fetched, so capacityMw is omitted. Terra Ventures reportedly sought approval for a related data-center-plus-power-plant project on the same site in 2023.
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
No status history was supplied in this edition.
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.
- Terra Data Center — Santa Clara, California · CleanView
- Energy Plant + Data Center Proposed at 4701 North First Street, San Jose · SF YIMBY
- Powering Silicon Valley's AI Dreams · Technostatecraft (Substack)
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID terra-data-center-alviso-san-jose-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
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001444
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
- 4701 North First Street, San Jose, CA · Santa Clara (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Terra Ventures
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.
Area, acreage and buildings
- Land area: 9 acres (source-reported; parcel boundary not established)
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Not stated
Reproduced as the page prints it; not ranked or totaled; unknown is not zero.
- Power source: On-site gas
Provider label.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-12
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 · Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings.
Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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