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Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC34

2820 Northwestern Parkway · Santa Clara County, CA

Source: OpenStreetMap

Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC34 is an operating data center in Santa Clara County, CA, operated by Digital Realty Trust, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 129,242 sq ft footprint at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Operator
Digital Realty Trust, Inc.
Est. capacity
~25-55 MW
Footprint
129,242 sq ft
Utility
City of Santa Clara
Grid
CISO
Attribution & capacity confidence:mediumprimary source
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Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

source: link

Digital Realty Silicon Valley SJC34 is an operating colocation data center in Santa Clara County, California, run by Digital Realty Trust, Inc. Public records put its footprint at 129,242 square feet. The site draws power from the City of Santa Clara utility within the CISO balancing authority.

Operator chain

The grid behind this site, right now

source: CAISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
84%
Fossil right now
4%
Grid operator
CAISO
  • Solar62.2%
  • Imports12.0%
  • Wind7.6%
  • Nuclear6.5%
  • Natural Gas4.3%
  • Hydro4.0%
  • Geothermal2.2%
  • Biomass1.2%

Real-time generation mix for the CAISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 4:35 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.

In the news

source: Google News

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Digital Realty Trust, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.

Dollar value not disclosed for these records.
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2025 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • Texas Qualifying Data Center Exemption$0
    State of Texas · granted 2014 · term — yr · source

Water use

No public record of this facility's water use. We check state withdrawal reporting for self-supplied sites; municipally supplied sites only become visible through a public-records request to the local water utility — a per-facility request tool is coming. If you have a utility document for this site, send it to us.

EPA permits & violations

source: EPA ECHO

No reported violations as of last sync.

Air quality near this site

source: AirNow
59
PM2.5
Moderate
33
O3
Good

Air Quality Index from the nearest AirNow reporting area (San Jose), as of 2026-06-10. Regional context — not this facility's own emissions.

Who lives nearby

source: Census ACS 2023
Median household income
$138.4K
People of color
76%
Below poverty
17%
Tract population
8,473

Demographics of the census tract this facility sits in (American Community Survey 5-year estimates). Environmental-justice context for who bears the local impacts.

Nearest school

source: HIFLD / NCES

The nearest public school, Bracher Elementary in Santa Clara, is 0.4 mi from this site (236 students). 4 public schools sit within a mile of the site.

Schools are sensitive receptors for the noise, backup-generator exhaust, and traffic a large data center brings. Straight-line distance to the nearest public school (HIFLD/NCES, US public schools only).

Hearings timeline

No public-hearing records linked to this site yet. We surface planning-commission and board-of-supervisors dates when a record names a facility. If you know of a hearing on this site, tell us.