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Equinix Silicon Valley Campus

San Jose, Santa Clara County, CA

Equinix Silicon Valley Campus is a mapped data center in Santa Clara County, CA, operated by Equinix, Inc.. DataCentersExposed has documented 380 MW of reported power capacity at this site.

Reporting by · Updated Jun 14, 2026

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Real parent
Equinix, Inc.
Operator
Equinix, Inc.
Power
380 MW
Utility
Pacific Gas & Electric Co.
Grid
CISO
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Most sites are mapped — located but awaiting a second source. How we verify

Dot size = disclosed capacity (MW). Smallest = undisclosed, not small.

Overview

The Equinix Silicon Valley Campus is a colocation data center in San Jose, Santa Clara County, California, operated by Equinix, Inc. Operational since 2007, it draws a reported 380 MW of power capacity from Pacific Gas & Electric Co. within the CISO balancing authority.

Operator chain

  • Ultimate parent
    Equinix, Inc.
  • This facility
    Equinix Silicon Valley Campus

The grid behind this site, right now

source: CAISO · gridstatus
Clean right now
81%
Fossil right now
4%
Grid operator
CAISO
  • 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: GDELT

Tax breaks & subsidies

source: Good Jobs First / GASB 77

These tax breaks are recorded to Equinix, 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.
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term — yr · source
  • The Climate Change Agreement$0
    HMRC, United Kingdom · granted 2022 · term — yr · source

Water use

Modeled estimate~7.1M gpd
Direct (onsite cooling)
~3.9M gpd
Indirect (its electricity)
~3.3M gpd

No measured record exists, so this is a low-confidence model from 380 MW (disclosed IT power): 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 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
$194.4K
People of color
58%
Below poverty
3%
Tract population
5,320

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, Sakamoto Elementary in San Jose, is 653 ft from this site (525 students). 6 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.