Santa Cruz County, California
Santa Cruz County, California has 10 power projects in the FieldProspects database: 9 operating plants totaling 14.4 MW and 1 planned project totaling 203.7 MW. No data center record lists the county. Battery Storage leads with 204.7 MW across 2 projects.
Santa Cruz County and its neighbors
Counties shaded by data center MW on record, planned to operating. 4 of its 4 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
more planned than operating generation in Santa Cruz County. 1 project in the queue would add 203.7 MW to the 14.4 MW operating today.
Technology mix
10 projects, 218.1 MW planned and operating
Power generation in the county
9 plants operate inside Santa Cruz County, 14.4 MW. The queue adds 203.7 MW across 1 project.
Operating and planned generation by technology
MW in Santa Cruz County
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| Technology | Status | Projects | MW |
|---|---|---|---|
| Battery Storage | Operating | 1 | 1 |
| Battery Storage | Planned | 1 | 203.7 |
| Landfill Gas | Operating | 4 | 4.6 |
| Natural Gas | Operating | 1 | 4.4 |
| Solar | Operating | 3 | 4.4 |
Planned generation by listed in-service year
MW. Years before 2026 are past due.
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| Year | Planned projects | MW |
|---|---|---|
| 2029 | 1 | 203.7 |
Santa Cruz County against its neighbors
Santa Clara County has the most data center MW among the neighbors, 1.9 GW. 4 of the 4 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 | 51 | 1,190 | 1x | ||
| Monterey County | 0 | 3,400 | 0x | ||
| San Benito County | 0 | 225 | 0x | ||
| San Mateo County | 1 | 253 | 0x | ||
| Santa Cruz County this page | 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.
5 counties shownEvery record in Santa Cruz County
Project name, developer, status, MW, in-service year and the developer’s contacts, for all 10 records. Filter, sort and export to Excel.
| Project or campus | Developer | Status | MW | Year | Contacts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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