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Terra Data Center

San Jose, Santa Clara County, California

ProposedNo reception on recordRecord updated September 12, 2026

Terra Data Center is a proposed data center in San Jose, California (Santa Clara County), operated by Terra Ventures. The public record puts it at 9 acres.

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Facility record

Proposed

Operator
Terra Ventures
Facility type
Data center
Location
4701 North First Street, San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA
Coordinates
37.3808, -121.9237 (approximate)
Power capacity
Not established from a public source
Land
9 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Not established from a public source
Power source
On site gas
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 September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Terra 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

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.

Notes on the record

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 this session could not confirm the MW figure via a source it directly fetched, so capacityMw is omitted. Terra Ventures reportedly sought approval for a related data-center-plus-power-plant project on the same site in 2023.

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.

  • Power capacity in megawatts
  • 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
Power capacity in megawatts
The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
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.

Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Terra Data Center in San Jose?

Nothing on record as of September 12, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Terra 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.

Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Terra Data Center?

No lawsuit over Terra Data Center appears in the record we track as of September 12, 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 Terra Data Center use?

No water withdrawal figure for Terra 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 Terra Data Center, and how big is it?

Terra Ventures is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 9 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Terra Data Center," updated September 12, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/terra-data-center-alviso-san-jose-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/terra-data-center-alviso-san-jose-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.Terra Data Center, Santa Clara, California · CleanView · retrieved September 12, 2026
  2. 2.Energy Plant + Data Center Proposed at 4701 North First Street, San Jose · SF YIMBY · retrieved September 12, 2026
  3. 3.Powering Silicon Valley's AI Dreams · Technostatecraft (Substack) · retrieved September 12, 2026

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