Santa Clara County, California
Santa Clara County, California has 1.9 GW of data centers on record, planned to operating, across 51 records, against 1.9 GW of generation operating inside the county. The queue adds 1.2 GW of planned generation across 9 projects, 4 of them past their listed in-service date.
Santa Clara County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 6 of its 6 neighboring counties have pages of their own. The rest are in the member database.
Data center records planned, under construction and operating, data as of October 8, 2026.Hover a county for its numbers
of the generation operating in the county is matched by data center MW on record: 1.9 GW of data centers against 1.9 GW of plants, with 1.2 GW more planned.
Data centers by status
51 records, 1.9 GW
The data center pipeline
30 records list a year online or expected, from 2005 to 2030. The largest expected additions are 159.4 MW listed for 2028 and 98 MW for 2027. 21 records list no year.
Data center MW by year online or expected
Records not cancelled, by listed year. 2026 onward is planned or under construction.
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| Year | Records | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2005 | 1 | 20 |
| 2006 | 3 | 0 |
| 2007 | 2 | 27 |
| 2008 | 0 | 0 |
| 2009 | 0 | 0 |
| 2010 | 0 | 0 |
| 2011 | 2 | 39 |
| 2012 | 0 | 0 |
| 2013 | 2 | 17 |
| 2014 | 0 | 0 |
| 2015 | 1 | 23 |
| 2016 | 1 | 7 |
| 2017 | 0 | 0 |
| 2018 | 1 | 24 |
| 2019 | 1 | 34 |
| 2020 | 1 | 29 |
| 2021 | 3 | 73 |
| 2022 | 1 | 35 |
| 2023 | 1 | 39 |
| 2024 | 1 | 9 |
| 2025 | 2 | 117 |
| 2026 | 2 | 78 |
| 2027 | 2 | 98 |
| 2028 | 2 | 159 |
| 2029 | 0 | 0 |
| 2030 | 1 | 42 |
Who is building in Santa Clara
Data center developers by MW on record. Top 6 of 22.
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| Developer | Sites | MW |
|---|---|---|
| Prologis | 5 | 495 |
| Vantage Data Centers | 10 | 281 |
| Microsoft | 2 | 197 |
| Stack Infrastructure | 5 | 194 |
| Amazon | 4 | 176 |
| Terra Ventures | 1 | 99 |
Power generation in the county
172 plants operate inside Santa Clara County, 1.9 GW. The queue adds 1.2 GW across 9 projects, and 4 of them are past their listed in-service date.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Santa Clara County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Natural Gas | Operating | 56 | 1,534.7 |
| Natural Gas | Planned | 1 | 120 |
| Battery Storage | Operating | 4 | 77 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 8 | 1,070.4 |
| Oil | Operating | 95 | 232.1 |
| Solar | Operating | 12 | 36.1 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 1 | 4 |
| Biomass | Operating | 4 | 3.2 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 2 | 123 |
| 2024 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2 | 53 |
| 2026 | 1 | 50 |
| 2027 | 1 | 200 |
| 2028 | 0 | 0 |
| 2029 | 2 | 662.5 |
| 2030 | 1 | 101.9 |
Santa Clara County against its neighbors
Alameda County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 125.6 MW, 7% of Santa Clara County's. 6 of the 6 have more generation operating than data center MW on record.
| County | Data center records | Data center MW | Operating generation MW | Planned generation MW | Data center MW per MW operating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Clara County this page | 51 | 1,190 | 1x | ||
| Alameda County | 3 | 2,291 | 0.09x | ||
| Stanislaus County | 0 | 1,443 | 0x | ||
| Merced County | 0 | 6,993 | 0x | ||
| San Benito County | 0 | 225 | 0x | ||
| San Mateo County | 1 | 253 | 0x | ||
| Santa Cruz County | 0 | 204 | 0x |
Data center MW counts records planned, under construction and operating. Generation is inside the county only. Neighbors without a page have fewer than three projects on record.
7 counties shownWhat changed since June 4, 2026
8 projects in Santa Clara County moved between the two snapshots. Counts and MW are below; the projects themselves are for members.
Every change in Santa Clara County
Project, what changed, technology, MW and the dates that moved, for all 8 changes.
| Project | Change | Technology | MW | Previous date | New date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Rows are hidden on public pages. Members see the project behind each change, its developer and the dates that moved.
Every record in Santa Clara County
Campus or project name, developer, status, MW, year and the developer’s contacts, for all 232 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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