gave final approval to the division<\/a> of a 157.4-acre parcel that is within a 176.3-acre tech campus occupied by Western Digital.<\/p>\nThe decision led to vocal opposition to a data center proposed for one of the two sites involved in the split.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m concerned that the subdivision could lead to more industrial uses and the data center,\u201d said Sonal Nayak, a resident of the area where the computing hub is proposed. \u201cIt could increase traffic, noise, energy use and demand for water.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposed data center would be on a rectangular 15.5-acre parcel on Charlotte Drive between Raleigh Road and Lexington Avenue in South San Jose, city planning documents show.<\/p>\n
It is expected to total 444,400 square feet and an existing building on the property would be bulldozed.<\/p>\n
The other 141.9-acre parcel is being retained by San Jose-based Western Digital for its ongoing South Bay operations at and near 5601 Great Oaks Parkway.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe subdivided land would be an excess component that Western Digital hopes would be made available for another entity to take the project forward,\u201d Jason Victor, a Western Digital representative, said at the hearing, referring to the smaller parcel and the planned data center.<\/p>\n
Besides the tech campus, numerous homes, shops, restaurants and medical hubs are located near the data center\u2019s proposed site.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt seems like this subdivision is the first step leading to a project that will become a data center,\u201d said a speaker who identified herself only as Stacy H. on a Zoom conference call for the public hearing.<\/p>\n
One speaker warned that \u201cthousands\u201d of residents are poised to oppose the data center when that proposal proceeds through a full review.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe need a lot more transparency about this subdivision,\u201d a speaker who used the name Abhinav T. stated.<\/p>\n
Now that the subdivision has been approved, a tentative map will be published for the new parcel boundaries.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s the first step,\u201d city planner Manuel Atienza said during the hearing. \u201cTentative maps do not authorize new construction, nor do they serve as approval of a project.\u201d<\/p>\n
City planners have begun a separate review of the data center proposal.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe city is very aware about the community\u2019s concern over data centers,\u201d Manira Sandhir, San Jose\u2019s deputy planning director, said during the hearing.<\/p>\n
Although some residents are concerned about the data center, tech operations on the campus have preceded the vast majority of the existing uses, often by a span of decades.<\/p>\n
The site has continuously been a tech campus since 1957, when IBM began operating on the property, later being succeeded by Hitachi Global Storage Technologies and then Western Digital. The tech campus was established even prior to the 1974 opening of Kaiser\u2019s huge medical center near Cottle Road and Highway 85.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Data center complex on Charlotte Drive between Lexington Avenue and Raleigh Road in south San Jose, evening view,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431897,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,387,7,8,3010,19628,1335,383,181,100,388,88,90,89,5406,198,200,201,1970],"class_list":["post-431896","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-bay-area","tag-business","tag-california","tag-california-news","tag-commercial-real-estate","tag-data-centers","tag-development","tag-economy","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-real-estate","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news","tag-san-jose-real-estate","tag-santa-clara-county","tag-south-bay","tag-south-san-jose","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431896","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=431896"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431896\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431897"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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Data center complex on Charlotte Drive between Lexington Avenue and Raleigh Road in south San Jose, evening view, concept. (Gensler)\u00a0(Gensler)<\/p>\n