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QTS Santa Clara 1
Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, California · All 36 QTS Data Centers sites · Every QTS and Compass Datacenters case on our tracker
QTS Santa Clara 1 is an operating data center in Santa Clara, California (Santa Clara County), operated by QTS Data Centers. The public record puts it at 7.5 MW operating, 4 acres.
Every line on this page traces to a public source listed at the bottom. Where a figure was looked for and not found, the row says so. A blank is never a zero.
Facility record
Operating
- Operator
- QTS Data Centers
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- 2805 Mission College Boulevard, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA, 95054
- Coordinates
- 37.3940, -121.9783
- Power capacity
- 7.5 MW operating
- Land
- 4 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Silicon Valley Power
- 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
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of August 16, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over QTS Santa Clara 1 in Santa Clara, 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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Notes on the record
Confirmed 4-acre multi-building QTS campus at 2805 Mission College Blvd, Santa Clara, CA. Candidate 58708529 is the same campus, ~0.1km away; kept this one, dropped the other as duplicate.
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 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.
Have one of these documents? Send it to us and we will add it to the record with attribution.
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.
- Csquare SFO2 · Santa Clara · Csquareunder 1 mile · Operating · 43.2 MW
- CoreSite Bowers Data Center · Santa Clara · CoreSiteunder 1 mile · Permitted · 72 MW · Mixed reception
- Equinix SV15 · Santa Clara · Equinix1 mi · Operating
- Lumen Sunnyvale 1 · Sunnyvale · Lumen Technologies2 mi · Operating · 6 MW
- Digital Realty SJC34 · Santa Clara · Digital Realty2 mi · Operating
- Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC30 · Santa Clara · Digital Realty2 mi · Operating
- Csquare SFO3 · Sunnyvale · Csquare2 mi · Operating · 8.6 MW
- Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) · Santa Clara · Vantage Data Centers2 mi · Operating · 64 MW
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the QTS Santa Clara 1 data center in Santa Clara?
Nothing on record as of August 16, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over QTS Santa Clara 1 in Santa Clara, 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.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the QTS Santa Clara 1 data center?
No lawsuit over QTS Santa Clara 1 appears in the record we track as of August 16, 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 QTS Santa Clara 1 use?
No water withdrawal figure for QTS Santa Clara 1 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 QTS Santa Clara 1, and how big is it?
QTS Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 36 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 7.5 MW. The site is recorded at 4 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "QTS Santa Clara 1," updated August 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/qts-santa-clara-1-ca.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.32.0 (September 7, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/qts-santa-clara-1-ca, retrieved September 14, 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.QTS facility directory · QTS · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 2.OpenStreetMap way/54121151 · OpenStreetMap · retrieved July 22, 2026
- 3.HIFLD Electric Retail Service Territories (ORNL/DOE-CESER, 2023-08 vintage) · Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) / HIFLD · retrieved July 23, 2026
- 4.QTS facility directory · QTS · retrieved August 16, 2026
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