Amazon
Santa Clara County, CA
Source: OpenStreetMap
Amazon is a mapped data center in Santa Clara County, CA, operated by Amazon.com, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented a 98,142 sq ft footprint at this site.
Reporting by Eric Keller · Updated Jun 14, 2026
Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify
Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.
Overview
source: linkThis is a mapped hyperscale data center in Santa Clara County, California, run by Amazon Web Services and filed under Amazon.com, Inc. Its reported footprint is 98,142 square feet. The site draws power from the City of Santa Clara utility inside the CISO balancing authority.
Operator chain
- Ultimate parentAmazon.com, Inc.
- Files asAmazon.com, Inc.
- This facilityAmazon
The grid behind this site, right now
source: CAISO · gridstatus- Solar53.3%
- Imports14.6%
- Wind10.5%
- Nuclear7.1%
- Hydro6.3%
- Natural Gas4.5%
- Geothermal2.4%
- Biomass1.3%
Real-time generation mix for the CAISO grid this site draws from, as of Jun 16, 2026, 2:45 PM. ISO-wide, not this facility's own metering. Source: gridstatus.
In the news
source: Google News- Amazon (AMZN) Is Building A Missouri Data Center Campus In Its AI PushYahoo Finance· Jun 16, 2026
- Amazon Unveils Multibillion-Dollar Missouri Data Center InvestmentYahoo Finance· Jun 16, 2026
- What Amazon.com (AMZN)'s US$10 Billion Missouri Data Center Bet Means For Shareholderssimplywall.st· Jun 16, 2026
- Amazon Plans to Invest $10 Billion in Missouri to Construct a New Data Center Campusmarketscreener.com· Jun 16, 2026
- Amazon Selects Missouri for $10 Billion Data Center CampusPR Newswire· Jun 15, 2026
- AMZN stock jumps — Amazon announces multibillion-dollar data center expansion in MissouriMSN· Jun 15, 2026
Tax breaks & subsidies
source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77These tax breaks are recorded to Amazon.com, Inc. (the operator/parent) and may cover this or other sites — no state names the recipient at the facility level.
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
- Texas Qualifying Large Data Center Project Exemption$0State of Texas · granted 2026 · term — yr · source
- Long-Term Rural Enterprise Zone (Morrow County School District 1)$16,668,806Morrow County School District 1, OR · granted 2024 · term — yr · source
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, Mission Early College High in Santa Clara, is 0.9 mi from this site (159 students).
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.