This is a source-attributed discovery row. It can help you find a place and its citations; it is not a DataCenterData finding that the facility is distinct or currently operating.
Facility snapshot
- Operator as published
- Digital Realty
- Address and locality
- 727 S. Grand Avenue · Los Angeles · Los Angeles County · California · 90017
- Lifecycle status
- reported proposed
- Facility type
- data center
- Reported capacity
- Not stated
- Source freshness
- 2 August 2026
- Location precision
- approximate
- Source confidence
- reported
- Stable directory ID
dcd-dir-000454
What the source record says
13-story, approximately 485,892-486,000 gross sq ft tower (roughly 230,000 sq ft technical/server space per Bisnow) replacing a 1960s-era parking structure at 727-737 S. Grand Ave; architect OfficeUntitled. No city entitlements confirmed as of the most recent dated reporting - only an initial environmental study has been completed. A Nov 2025 trade-press report describes the project's status as 'unclear.' Industry-tracked as 'LAX13' (datacenterHawk); across the street from Digital Realty's untracked LAX10 (600 W. 7th St.) and near One Wilshire (624 S. Grand Ave); distinct from the already-tracked digital-realty-lax12-ca (El Segundo). No AI/HPC-specific marketing found anywhere - demand is framed as general entertainment/gaming and colocation. Correction: a widely-repeated '32MW, land acquired Nov 2025' claim associated with this address actually belongs to a separate, unrelated Digital Realty transaction at 4400 Pacific Blvd, Vernon, CA (5.4 acres, $48.8M, 32MW) - do not conflate; the Vernon site is not tracked in this dataset. Coordinates are an approximate street-level geocode, not a parcel-confirmed point.
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
- 2023-05-24 · reported proposed
Initial Site Development Plan / Development Agreement filing (applicant of record: GIP 7th Street LLC) for a 13-story, approximately 485,892 sq ft data center replacing a 1960s-era parking structure.
Sources and attribution
- Digital Realty Plans 13-Story Data Center in Downtown Los Angeles · Data Center Frontier
- DTLA data center at 727 S. Grand Ave. on track to start work in 2025 · Urbanize LA
- Here's the updated look for the big data center at 727 S. Grand Ave. · Urbanize LA
- Digital Realty To Add New Data Center To Downtown LA Block · Bisnow
- 727 S. Grand (Data Center) project tracker · Downtown LA
- Digital Realty LAX13 - 727 South Grand Avenue · datacenterHawk
- Digital Realty drops $9M per acre on Vernon data center site (confirms 727 Grand Ave. status as 'unclear' as of Nov 2025) · The Real Deal
Adapted from Compute Atlas by Edward Kubiak, edition 1.33.0, under CC BY 4.0. Upstream ID digital-realty-727-s-grand-ave-la-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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