Terra Data Center
Terra Ventures · San Jose, CA · United States
Facility record
- Lifecycle
- ProposedSource-reported lifecycle
- Location precision
- approximate
- Address as listed
- 4701 North First Street
- Coordinates
- 37.3807591, -121.9236758
- Serving utility, source-reported
- Not established
- Operational capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Planned capacity, source-reported
- Not published
- Source record updated
- 2026-09-12
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
No dated operational history is established in this record. Publication, discovery and source-update dates are not opening dates.
Source notes
Filed with San Jose's planning department as a revised proposal (reported April 2025) on a site previously approved in 2018 for an entertainment/hotel complex that was never built. Two buildings proposed: a three-story, 295,100 sq ft data center and a 167,400 sq ft energy-supply hub (~462,500 sq ft total), designed by CallisonRTKL. A second phase is reported to include a greenhouse heated by data-center waste heat, supplying a community retail store. Widely reported elsewhere as the largest data center proposed in California to date (a 417 MW figure appears in aggregator listings), but the MW figure could not be confirmed from the cited sources, so no capacity is recorded. Terra Ventures reportedly sought approval for a related data-center-plus-power-plant project on the same site in 2023.
Design pairs Bloom Energy natural-gas fuel cells with absorption chillers that use the fuel cells' waste heat to make chilled water, reported as intended to remove the need for traditional backup generators.
Sources and provenance
- Terra Data Center — Santa Clara, California · source retrieved 2026-09-12
- Energy Plant + Data Center Proposed at 4701 North First Street, San Jose · source retrieved 2026-09-12
- Powering Silicon Valley's AI Dreams · source retrieved 2026-09-12
Power Wars capture: 2026-11-02. Compute Atlas, CC BY 4.0. Entries are not independently verified by Power Wars unless stated.