{"id":398689,"date":"2026-07-15T01:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398689\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T01:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T01:12:09","slug":"is-google-hiding-a-data-center-project-in-north-san-jose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/398689\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Google hiding a data center project in North San Jose?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"has-drop-cap wp-block-paragraph\">Advocates say Google is hiding a data center inside a planned research and development lab in North San Jose.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The tech giant\u2019s plans at 5079 and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanjoseca.gov\/your-government\/departments-offices\/planning-building-code-enforcement\/planning-division\/data-center-and-other-large-energy-use-projects\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">5087 Disk Drive<\/a>\u00a0call for demolishing an existing warehouse and parking lot to construct up to three research and development (R&amp;D) facilities across nearly 483,000 square feet. Architectural blueprints for the facilities show an onsite substation and switching station with three transformers, multiple generator yards and more. The facilities would have a 250-megawatt capacity \u2014 enough to power\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boostess.energy\/blog\/how-many-homes-can-1-megawatt-power\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">250,000 homes<\/a>\u00a0at any given time. The project is still in the early stages of review.<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading for free<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Sign in to read this story and receive the weekly roundup in your inbox. <\/p>\n<p>Success! Your account was created and you\u2019re signed in.<br \/>Please visit <a href=\"https:\/\/localnewsmatters.org\/my-account\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">My Account<\/a> to manage your account.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advocates say Google is hiding a data center inside a planned research and development lab in North San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":398690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[17768,12994,2080,10174,4019,19628,160118,21298,14624,160119,18913,4720,88,90,89,881,2280,200],"class_list":["post-398689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-ai-technology","tag-alviso","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-ceqa","tag-construction","tag-data-centers","tag-environmental-impact-review","tag-environmental-review","tag-google","tag-industrial-pollution","tag-pollution","tag-public-health","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-spotlight","tag-silicon-valley","tag-south-bay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/398690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}