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Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- CoreSite
- Address and locality
- 2805 Bowers Avenue · Santa Clara · Santa Clara County · California · 95051
- Lifecycle status
- reported permitted
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Planned: 72 MW (source-reported; boundary not independently verified)
- Source freshness
- 14 September 2026
- Location precision
- exact
- Source confidence
- confirmed
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000321
What the source record says
Coordinates approximate based on 2805 Bowers Ave address. Originally a GI Partners project; CoreSite (owned by American Tower) acquired in Feb 2026 and is expected to redevelop under existing permit. CoreSite already operates a dense interconnection campus nearby in Santa Clara. No construction timeline announced as of mid-2026.
Any MW value is reproduced as source-reported context. Its measurement boundary is not established consistently enough for comparison. Unknown is not zero.
Status history supplied by the source
- 2021-01 · reported proposed
GI Partners assembled Walsh Bowers Technology Center properties for ~$79M; 2805 Bowers Ave acquired from KeyPoint Credit Union for $37.5M
- 2024-08 · reported permitted
Santa Clara City Council unanimously approved demolition of 1975 office building and construction of 72MW, 244,070 sq ft four-story data center (Bowers Data Center and Bowers Backup Generating Facility); Planning Commission had deadlocked 3-2
- 2026-02 · reported permitted
CoreSite affiliate acquired 2805 Bowers Ave for ~$57M (part of $100M three-property deal from GI Partners); planning permission carries with land; redevelopment plans expected
Sources and attribution
- GI Partners Secures Planning Permission for 72MW Data Center in Santa Clara · Data Center Dynamics
- CoreSite Acquires Silicon Valley Office Property Zoned for Data Center Redevelopment · Data Center Dynamics
- 2805 Bowers Avenue — Data Center Project Listing · City of Santa Clara
- Bowers Backup Generating Facility (22-SPPE-01), 2805 Bowers Avenue · California Energy Commission
- CoreSite drops $100 million on Santa Clara tech strip · Hoodline
- Nominatim geocode of 2805 Bowers Avenue, Santa Clara, CA · OpenStreetMap contributors
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID coresite-bowers-santa-clara-ca. Filtered to data-center records in the 50 U.S. states; selected fields normalized for search and display; DataCenterData directory IDs added.
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