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Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3)

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OperatingNo reception on recordRecord updated September 14, 2026

Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) is an operating data center in Santa Clara, California (Santa Clara County), operated by Vantage Data Centers. The public record puts it at 64 MW operating, 8 acres.

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Facility record

Operating

Operator
Vantage Data Centers
Facility type
Data center
Location
2590 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, Santa Clara County, CA, 95051
Coordinates
37.3712, -121.9740 (approximate)
Power capacity
64 MW operating
Land
8 acres
Investment
Not established from a public source
Announced
Not established from a public source
Utility
Silicon Valley Power
Power source
Grid
On site generation
96 MW
Cooling
Closed loop
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

Opposition and litigation at this site

Nothing on record as of September 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) 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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A new status, a permit, a reception finding, or a lawsuit. Nothing else, ever.

Power and water

Operator states the facility runs on 100% renewable energy supplied by SVP.

Operator's own page describes a 'closed-loop chilled water system with air-cooled chillers and integrated economizer capability,' with water utilization efficiency described as near zero, consistent with the water-circuit tie-breaker, under which a recirculating circuit is closed-loop.

Notes on the record

Vantage's third Santa Clara campus (with CA1 and CA2, both in this dataset as of September 2026); the three campuses total 216MW of Silicon Valley IT capacity per the operator. One four-story building, 486,000 sq ft. Opened to customers in October 2024 and independently confirmed as commissioned/operational by a third-party facility tracker as of September 2026, though the operator's own marketing page still describes it in future tense.

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.

  • Tax abatements or other public subsidy
  • Permanent jobs promised
  • How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
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.

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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.

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Questions people ask about this site

Is there opposition to the Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) data center in Santa Clara?

Nothing on record as of September 14, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) 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 Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) data center?

No lawsuit over Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) 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 Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) use?

No water withdrawal figure for Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3) is on record here. Cooling is recorded as closed_loop, which is the strongest available clue: closed loop and air cooled plant draw far less than evaporative cooling. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.

Who operates Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3), and how big is it?

Vantage Data Centers is the operator on record. We hold 21 sites for that company across the registry. Capacity on record is 64 MW. The site is recorded at 8 acres.

How to cite this page

SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Vantage Santa Clara III (CA3)," updated September 14, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/vantage-santa-clara-iii-ca3-ca.

Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/vantage-santa-clara-iii-ca3-ca, retrieved October 29, 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.Santa Clara III, California Data Center - Vantage Data Centers · Vantage Data Centers · retrieved September 12, 2026
  2. 2.Vantage Data Centers CA3 | 2590 Walsh Avenue, Northern California · datacenterHawk · retrieved September 12, 2026
  3. 3.CA3 Backup Generating Facility (21-SPPE-01), project owner Vantage, 2590 Walsh Avenue · California Energy Commission · retrieved September 14, 2026
  4. 4.Nominatim geocode of 2590 Walsh Avenue, Santa Clara, CA · OpenStreetMap contributors · retrieved September 14, 2026

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