Lumen Sunnyvale 1
1380 Kifer Road · Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, CA
Source: OpenStreetMap
Lumen Sunnyvale 1 is an operating data center in Santa Clara County, CA, operated by Lumen Technologies, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 77,132 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 17, 2026
Overview
source: linkLumen Sunnyvale 1 is an operating edge data center in Sunnyvale, Santa Clara County, California, run by Lumen Technologies, Inc. Its reported footprint is 77,132 square feet. The site draws power from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. inside the CISO balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentLumen Technologies, Inc.
- Files asLumen Technologies, Inc.
- This facilityLumen Sunnyvale 1
The grid behind this site, right now
source: CAISO · gridstatus- Solar46.8%
- Natural Gas28.7%
- Wind9.2%
- Hydro7.3%
- Nuclear5.3%
- Geothermal1.8%
- Biomass0.9%
Real-time generation mix for the CAISO grid this site draws from, as of Jul 15, 2026, 10:20 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
Grid & water — why here
source: HIFLD · EPAThe closest existing grid infrastructure and the municipal water system this location sits in — the same constraints the buildout model screens on (it won't site a campus more than ~2 km from a substation or ~5 km from municipal water). Distances are straight-line to public HIFLD/EPA features, not a metered connection.
In the news
source: Google News- Lumen Stock Rises After AWS Cloud Partnership Announcement | 2026 - News and StatisticsIndexBox· Apr 18, 2026
- Arista Networks (ANET) Revenue Outlook: AI Drives Growth Amid $700B Data Center Investment - News and StatisticsIndexBox· Mar 29, 2026
- Cyxtera Data Center Leases – Who and What is at Risk?Dgtl Infra· Jul 6, 2023
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77No per-deal tax break is linked to this site yet. No state discloses the recipient of a data-center abatement at the facility level, so per-site deals are rare in the public record. If you have a development agreement or board resolution for this site, send it to us.
Water use
No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 5 MW (interconnection capacity): 2 L/kWh cooling (hot climate) + 0.45 gal/kWh embedded in US grid average. How we estimate. Have a utility document? Send it and we'll replace this with the real figure.
EPA permits & violations
source: EPA ECHONo reported violations as of last sync.
Air quality near this site
source: AirNowAir 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 2023Demographics 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 / NCESThe nearest public school, Adrian Wilcox High in Santa Clara, is 0.5 mi from this site (1,859 students). 2 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.