Plans to develop a data center have been re-filed in San Jose, California.
Silicon Valley.com reports developers are seeking to develop a facility on land in the Alviso district of north San Jose previously earmarked for an entertainment district.
An affiliate of Terra Ventures is behind the proposal, which has been filed with the San Jose planning department.
Two buildings are planned on a 9.3-acre site bounded by North First Street, Anderson Alley, Top Golf Drive and Liberty Street. The three-story data center is expected to total 295,100 sq ft (27,415 sqm)while the energy supply hub would be 167,400 sq ft (15,551 sqm).
Arcadis is involved in the development, which on a project page claims a second phase of development will include a greenhouse heated by the data center, which will grow fruit and vegetables to be sold from an on-site community retail store.
A blog post in the AI Journal from Arcadis suggests the site will utilize natural gas-powered fuel cells from Bloom Energy that will be grid reactive. This will reportedly be the facility’s primary power source. It also suggests the data center will use DC power from the fuel cells rather than going through multiple AC conversions.
An Arcadis document calls the facility the Terra Data Center. The site will reportedly use absorption chillers to use heat from the fuel cells to generate chilled water.
This is the second time Terra has filed to build a data center on the site. The company first submitted an application to develop a two-story, 172,500 sq ft (16,025 sqm) data center and adjacent power-generating facility back in 2023.
In 2018 Terra pitched the 37.7-acre site along the Guadalupe River for a development known as ‘Shops @ Terra’; an entertainment district that would have housed restaurants, shops, two hotels, and a TopGolf complex.
While the TopGolf site opened in 2021, the rest of the developments have failed to materialize. The site where the data center is being proposed was previously earmarked for SJL7; a four-story, 200-room hotel.
