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Reported geography
Source-reported location for 5601 Great Oaks Parkway Data Center (Menlo Equities, Charlotte Drive).
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Source row snapshot
- Operator as published
- Menlo Equities
- Address and locality
- 5601 Great Oaks Parkway · San Jose · Santa Clara County · California · 95119
- Official metro area
- San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
- Source-reported status
- proposed
- Provider facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 100 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-001630
Reported details
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- Announced
- August 2026
What the source record says
Proposed on Charlotte Drive between Lexington Avenue and Raleigh Road, industrial-zoned land within Western Digital's tech campus; The Real Deal reports the project would require nearly 100 MW once complete. Coordinates are a street-level geocode of Great Oaks Parkway (approximate).
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
- 2026-08-10 · source-reported proposed
Special Use Permit SP26-022 (pending intake on the city's July 2026 list) for a 444,436 sq ft data center with on-site substation and publicly accessible open space on a portion of Western Digital's South San José campus along Charlotte Drive; ~100 MW at full build per The Real Deal.
Sources and attribution
- 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
- Menlo Equities, Oppidan next in line for data center projects in San Jose (2026-08-10) · The Real Deal
- San José weighs data center benefits as residents raise environmental concerns (2026-08-13) · KQED
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.34.1+reviewed-2610e0556b3d, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID menlo-equities-great-oaks-parkway-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-001630
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Identity and relationships
- Provider facility type: data center
Provider facility type.
Location and precision
- 5601 Great Oaks Parkway, San Jose, CA 95119 · Santa Clara (Approximate location)
Roles
- Operator: Menlo Equities
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: August 2026
Provider-reported announcement date.
- Status history: 2026-08-10 · source-reported proposed
Status history supplied by the source.
Power capacity
- Reported capacity: Planned: 100 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.
Sources, dates, limitations and corrections
- Provider update date: 2026-09-21
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Licensed values: adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak under CC BY 4.0. Source-reported and not independently verified.
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