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STACK SVY03A

Hayward, Alameda County, California · All 21 STACK Infrastructure sites

PermittedContestedRecord updated August 16, 2026

STACK SVY03A is a permitted data center in Hayward, California (Alameda County), operated by STACK Infrastructure. The public record puts it at 67.2 MW planned, 11.3 acres. It is the subject of active public debate, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition on record.

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

Permitted

Operator
STACK Infrastructure
Facility type
Data center
Location
26203 Production Avenue, Hayward, Alameda County, CA, 94545
Coordinates
37.6281, -122.1195 (approximate)
Power capacity
67.2 MW planned
Land
11.3 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Power source
Grid
On site generation
76.6 MW
Cooling
Not established from a public source
Water use
Not established from a public source
Jobs
41 permanent; 380 construction
Public subsidy
Not established from a public source
Community reception
Contested
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.

  1. May 22, 2025
    Permitted
    Hayward Planning Commission unanimously approved Major Site Plan Review / Administrative Use Permit SPR-23-0036; no appeals filed. Source: City of Hayward
  2. March 24, 2025
    Proposed
    CEQA Mitigated Negative Declaration filed (SCH# 2025030999). Source: California State Clearinghouse (CEQAnet)

Opposition and litigation at this site

Yes. STACK SVY03A in Hayward, Alameda County, California is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Approved via a zoning classification (Hayward Municipal Code Section 10-1.1604) that treated data centers as "office use," letting the project bypass City Council-level review and go through Planning Commission alone.

How the community has taken it

Reception is a sourced signal, not an editorial judgment: contested means active public debate is on record, with hearings, petitions, or organized opposition, without litigation.

Approved via a zoning classification (Hayward Municipal Code Section 10-1.1604) that treated data centers as "office use," letting the project bypass City Council-level review and go through Planning Commission alone. Council members publicly raised concerns about the project's power and water draw; the developer added a $2M Public Benefits Package (up from an initial $1.3M offer) during the approval process. This controversy is the documented precursor to Hayward's April 2026 ordinance creating a data-center-specific Major Conditional Use Permit category requiring Council-level public hearings for future data-center applications.

Source: OpGov News

Power and water

76.6 MW is CEC SPPE-disclosed backup-generator capacity (docket 23-SPPE-01, 28 generators), not IT/critical load.

Notes on the record

STACK's first tracked East Bay CA site (existing STACK entries stack-svy01-ca/San Jose and stack-svy02-ca/Santa Clara are both South Bay). 300,000 sq ft campus at Production Ave/Investment Blvd: 3-story primary data center building + 1-story secondary building, height 100ft (+8ft variance approved); site plan also shows frontage on Eden Landing Road, treated as the same 11.3-acre parcel, not a separate site. energy.onSiteGenerationMw reflects the CEC SPPE-disclosed backup-generator capacity (28 generators across two yards, docket 23-SPPE-01) - this is NOT a disclosed IT/critical-load figure; no whole-facility IT MW is publicly disclosed anywhere. The 76.6 MW figure supersedes the original CEQA filing's 67.2 MW. Jobs figures (41 permanent, ~380 construction) are single-sourced to local press (Tri City Voice; Hayward Herald ran the same underlying story). Coordinates are a geocoded street-address point, not parcel-confirmed.

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
  • 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.
Which utility serves it
The electric service agreement or the utility's filing with the state public utility commission.

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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the STACK SVY03A data center in Hayward?

Yes. STACK SVY03A in Hayward, Alameda County, California is contested. Hearings, public comment, petitions, or organized opposition are on record, and no lawsuit has been filed so far. Approved via a zoning classification (Hayward Municipal Code Section 10-1.1604) that treated data centers as "office use," letting the project bypass City Council-level review and go through Planning Commission alone.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the STACK SVY03A data center?

No lawsuit over STACK SVY03A 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 STACK SVY03A use?

No water withdrawal figure for STACK SVY03A 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 STACK SVY03A, and how big is it?

STACK Infrastructure is the operator on record. We hold 21 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 67.2 MW. The site is recorded at 11.3 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "STACK SVY03A," updated August 16, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/stack-svy03a-hayward-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/stack-svy03a-hayward-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. 1.CEQAnet Mitigated Negative Declaration filing (SCH# 2025030999) · California State Clearinghouse (CEQAnet) · retrieved August 2, 2026
  2. 2.STACK SVY03A backup generating system docket (23-SPPE-01) · California Energy Commission · retrieved August 2, 2026
  3. 3.Data center development applications · City of Hayward · retrieved August 2, 2026
  4. 4.Who approved Hayward's largest data center? · Tri City Voice · retrieved August 2, 2026
  5. 5.Hayward data center under public scrutiny as loopholes pile up · OpGov News · retrieved August 2, 2026
  6. 6.CEQAnet Mitigated Negative Declaration filing (SCH# 2025030999) · California State Clearinghouse (CEQAnet) · retrieved August 16, 2026

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