{"id":503465,"date":"2026-10-21T23:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503465\/"},"modified":"2026-10-21T23:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-21T23:14:13","slug":"san-jose-data-hub-that-is-site-of-nvidia-chip-tests-wins-final-city-ok","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503465\/","title":{"rendered":"San Jose data hub that is site of Nvidia chip tests wins final city OK"},"content":{"rendered":"

SAN JOSE \u2014 The city gave final approval Tuesday for data center operations inside a research and office building<\/a> used by Nvidia in North San Jose.<\/p>\n

Despite a labor-orchestrated effort to appeal and delay the project, the San Jose City Council voted 8-0 to uphold a prior planning staff approval for the proposed use. The vote also rejected an appeal<\/a> of the prior decision.<\/p>\n

At 300 Holger Way, Nvidia conducts tests of different technologies inside the 97,800-square-foot building owned by an affiliate of Bay Area real estate firm Menlo Equities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAbout two years ago, we leased 300 Holger to Nvidia for 10 years,\u201d said Jane Vaughan, a Menlo Equities executive who leads the company\u2019s data center endeavors. \u201cNvidia has spent over $100 million remodeling this building for the purpose of testing and research on their computer systems.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Nvidia work in the building is focused on the company\u2019s advanced chips, said Erik Schoennauer, a land-use consultant who is advising Menlo Equities on the project.<\/p>\n

\u201cPart of the testing process requires data computation,\u201d Schoennauer said. \u201cThat\u2019s what this building does. This is like dozens, if not hundreds, of buildings around the city.\u201d<\/p>\n

Citizens for Responsible Industry claimed city planners failed to properly \u201canalyze\u201d the project\u2019s environmental impacts, Kelilah Federman, an attorney at Adams Broadwell Joseph & Cardozo, which represents the citizens group, said during Tuesday\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n

\u201cInstead of analyzing the project as a whole, the city is piecemealing project approvals,\u201d Federman said.<\/p>\n

Federman claimed the \u201cplanning director abused his discretion\u201d by approving the project on July 8.<\/p>\n

Despite concerns, the City Council approved the project without dissent Tuesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m frustrated about this conversation because we\u2019re actually talking about a building that is not a data center,\u201d Councilmember David Cohen said. \u201cBut we have a very strange definition of data center in our city code.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three members of the council did not vote on the matter, including Vice Mayor Pam Foley.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have a financial interest in the tenant,\u201d Foley said, referring to Nvidia.<\/p>\n

San Jose has proposed overarching rules<\/a> for data center projects. Final decisions by city policymakers, including the council, are slated to take place by year\u2019s end.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Santa Clara-based Nvidia has begun to scout in San Jose<\/a> for additional elbow room beyond the 300 Holger site.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is Nvidia\u2019s first entry into San Jose, and I hear they are looking at additional expansion space in San Jose,\u201d Vaughan said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SAN JOSE \u2014 The city gave final approval Tuesday for data center operations inside a research and office…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503466,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[184,387,7,8,3010,19628,1335,383,1286,1533,181,100,14293,10651,182,388,88,90,89,5406,198,200,1970],"class_list":["post-503465","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-jobs","tag-keywee","tag-latest-headlines","tag-news","tag-north-san-jose","tag-nvidia","tag-pm-report","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-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503465","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=503465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}