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Coachella Valley Technology Campus

Stronghold Power Systems · Coachella, CA · United States

Facility record

Lifecycle
CancelledSource-reported lifecycle
Location precision
approximate
Address as listed
Not published
Coordinates
33.671181, -116.169492
Serving utility, source-reported
Not established
Operational capacity, source-reported
Not published
Planned capacity, source-reported
270 MW
Source record updated
2026-09-21

Source-reported capacity; not metered consumption. Review underlying documents and notes. Planned capacity may include future phases and is not added to operational capacity here. The source may use facility, grid-feed or IT capacity definitions; consult the linked documents.

Coordinate precision is a source label, not an independent parcel survey. A marker does not confirm utility territory or establish an effect on residential bills.

Reported lifecycle history

  1. Proposed

    Coachella City Council approved a conceptual Municipal Utility Development Agreement with Coachella Valley Power Services LLC, a Stronghold Power Systems subsidiary; the project never reached the Planning Commission for its own land-use entitlements.

    Underlying source
  2. Cancelled

    City Council unanimously terminated the Stronghold utility agreement and approved a 45-day data-center moratorium after sustained community opposition. The moratorium was extended roughly 10.5 months on 2026-07-08, and the Planning Commission recommended a permanent citywide data-center ban (two conditions attached) on 2026-07-15, with Council adoption votes scheduled for 2026-08-12 and 2026-08-26.

    Underlying source

Source notes

450-acre, two-phase project (Phase 1: 240 acres, reportedly 270-300 MW across three to six buildings - sources disagree on the building count; Phase 2: 210 acres, up to roughly 600 MW combined) near the Fillmore Street and Avenue 52 intersection in eastern Coachella. The record is listed as cancelled as the closest available status: the city's only concrete agreement with the developer was terminated by City Council on 2026-06-04 and the city is one to two votes (2026-08-12, 2026-08-26) from a permanent data-center ban, though the developer has not formally withdrawn. As of August 2026, no AI/HPC-specific marketing was found anywhere - both the developer and press use generic 'data center'/'technology campus' language; the NBC headline's 'AI data center' phrasing is journalistic shorthand, not developer marketing. Planned around three microgrids and an energy center under a self-supplied municipal-utility model (Coachella Valley Power Services LLC, a Stronghold subsidiary; DMK Project Solutions Services is the named project-management partner); the Imperial Irrigation District separately projected approximately $42M in municipal-utility infrastructure financing - not project capex, so no investment figure is recorded. The recorded planned capacity of 270 MW is the Phase 1 total that Stronghold Power Systems states (three buildings at a rated 90 MW each, per Patch) and does not include Phase 2; GPS Business Insider gives a minimum of 270 MW of capacity and up to 300 MW of electricity demand for Phase 1. As of August 2026, jobs are disclosed only as vague estimates ('hundreds of local jobs'), so no jobs figure is recorded. Only cross-streets are known (Fillmore Street and Avenue 52) - no parcel address confirmed. Coordinates are an approximate road-segment geocode (Avenue 52), not a parcel-confirmed point.

Sources and provenance

Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.

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