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Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center)

San Jose, Santa Clara County, California · All 2 Goodman Group sites

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 14, 2026

Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) is a proposed data center in San Jose, California (Santa Clara County), operated by Goodman Group. The public record puts it at 97.3 MW planned, 45.8 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator: Goodman Group
Facility type: Data center
Location: 350 West Trimble Road, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA, 95134
Coordinates: 37.3806, -121.9338 (approximate)
Power capacity: 97.3 MW planned
Land: 45.8 acres
Investment: Not established from a public source
Announced: Not established from a public source
Utility: Not established from a public source
On site generation: 97.3 MW
Cooling: Not established from a public source
Water use: Not established from a public source
Jobs: Not established from a public source
Public subsidy: Not established from a public source
Community reception: No reception on record
Source confidence: Confirmed by multiple independent sources or official documentation

Timeline from the record

Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.

October 30, 2025
Proposed
Goodman announced acquisition of the 45.8-acre estate for redevelopment into a two-building, ~414,000 sq ft data center campus with up to 97.3 MW available by 2028. Source: Institutional Real Estate, Inc.

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.

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Power and water

CEC Small Power Plant Exemption 25-SPPE-02 (under review): 42 diesel generators, forty rated 3 MW (eight of them redundant) and two rated 1.75 MW, providing up to 97.3 MW of backup generation on an approximately 28.5-acre project site (APNs 101-02-018 and 101-02-021). The generating facility would not connect to the transmission or distribution grid.

Notes on the record

Site is 350 & 370 West Trimble Road at Orchard Parkway. The CEC applicant of record for the backup generating facility is GIC San Jose, LLC; Goodman announced the acquisition and redevelopment and renamed the estate. The 45.8 acres is the whole estate; the CEC gives the data center project site as about 28.5 acres.

What the record does not establish, and the document that would

In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.

Cooling method and water use
Tax abatements or other public subsidy
Permanent jobs promised
How the community has received it
Which utility serves it

Which document closes each gap

Cooling method and water use: The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
Tax abatements or other public subsidy: The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
Permanent jobs promised: The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
How the community has received it: Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
Which utility serves it: The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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Other sites within 30 miles

Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.

Microsoft San Jose Data Center Campus (SJ04) · San Jose · Microsoftunder 1 mile · Proposed · 97.8 MW
Sequoia Data Center (2600 De La Cruz Boulevard) · Santa Clara · Tishman Speyer (site acquired from CyrusOne, July 2026)under 1 mile · Permitted
Terra Data Center · San Jose · Terra Venturesunder 1 mile · Proposed
Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC11 · Santa Clara · Digital Realtyunder 1 mile · Operating
Digital Realty SJC36 (Lafayette Data Center, 2825 Lafayette Street) · Santa Clara · Digital Realtyunder 1 mile · Permitted · 66 MW
Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC31 · Santa Clara · Digital Realtyunder 1 mile · Operating
Prologis 326 Charcot Avenue Data Center (North San José) · San Jose · Prologisunder 1 mile · Proposed · 99 MW
Digital Realty SJC37 (641 Walsh Avenue) · Santa Clara · Digital Realtyunder 1 mile · Operating

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) in San Jose?

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center)?

No lawsuit over Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) appears in the record we track as of September 14, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.

How much water does Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center), and how big is it?

Goodman Group is the operator on record. We hold 2 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 97.3 MW. The site is recorded at 45.8 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Goodman Innovation Centre San Jose (NorthTown Data Center)," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/goodman-innovation-centre-san-jose-ca.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.0 (September 21, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/goodman-innovation-centre-san-jose-ca, retrieved October 1, 2026.

Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.

Sources for this record

As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.

1.NorthTown Backup Generating Facility (25-SPPE-02) · California Energy Commission · retrieved September 14, 2026
2.Goodman acquires prime Silicon Valley site for data center redevelopment · Institutional Real Estate, Inc. · retrieved September 14, 2026
3.Nominatim geocode of 350 West Trimble Road, San Jose, CA · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 14, 2026

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