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Reported geography
Source-reported location for Google 5079–5087 Disk Drive Compute Campus (North San José).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Google LLC
- Address and locality
- 5079 Disk Drive · San Jose · Santa Clara County · California · 95134
- Official metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 250 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified; MW measure not stated by provider)
- Source freshness
- 21 September 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Compute Atlas confidence label
- confirmed (provider's classification; not a DataCenterData check)
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-001619
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 and Electric Company
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Evaporative
- Community response
- Provider label: contested
- Announced
- March 2026
Provider notes
Energy. 230 kV transmission-level retail service via a new switching station on the Newark–NRS 230 kV line; CPUC draft resolution would require a refundable advance of $600,000/MW (up to $150M).
Community. North San José advocates argue the R&D label avoids data center scrutiny (blueprints show a 250 MW substation, generator yards and cooling towers); Google says the site is internal chip-engineering compute lab space and 'not going to be a data center'.
What the source record says
Classification caveat: Google and the City of San José describe an internal R&D/compute-lab facility, while PG&E's CPUC filing describes it as a 250 MW data center load. Recorded as data_center on the strength of the regulatory filing; Google submitted its interconnection application 2025-03-03.
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
- 2026-03-06 · source-reported proposed
Site Development Permit H26-005 submitted 2026-03-06: demolish a ~162,250 sq ft warehouse and build up to three 'research and development' facilities (~482,790 sq ft) with a switching station, substation and 250 MW of on-site electrical capacity; the city classifies it as a large energy-use project, not a data center.
- 2026-09-17 · source-reported proposed
PG&E's Advice Letter 7785-E (filed 2025-12-18) asks the CPUC to approve energizing 'a new 250 MW data center load' for Google at 5079 Disk Drive, with construction from January 2027 and in-service December 2028; the draft resolution was held again on 2026-09-17 and rescheduled for 2026-10-08.
Sources and attribution
- CPUC Draft Resolution E-5455 (2026-07-16): PG&E exceptional-case agreement to energize a new 250 MW data center load for Google LLC at 5079 Disk Drive, San Jose (230 kV) · California Public Utilities Commission
- Is Google hiding a data center project in North San Jose? (2026-07) · San José Spotlight
- City of San José — Data Center and other Large Energy-Use Projects (application list updated 2026-07-13; Wayback capture 2026-08-13) · City of San José Planning Division
- Sept. 17 CPUC voting meeting results — Draft Resolution E-5455 (Google 250 MW San Jose) held to 2026-10-08 (2026-09-18) · California Regulatory Intelligence
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID google-disk-drive-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).
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Recorded information
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Licensed directory listing dcd-dir-001619
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
- 5079 Disk Drive, San Jose, CA 95134 · Santa Clara (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Google LLC
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: March 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-03-06 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
- Status history: 2026-09-17 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 250 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 and Electric Company
Utility as named by the provider.
- Power source: Grid
Provider label.
Cooling, water, PUE and WUE
- Cooling: Evaporative
Provider label.
Permits, incentives, jobs and proceedings
- Community response: Provider label: contested
Compute Atlas characterization, not a DataCenterData assessment.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
Provider update date is not a DataCenterData verification date.
Not yet recorded here: Area, acreage and buildings · 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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