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Data center could sprout on empty chunk of land at prime San Jose site
Prologis proposes a 516,000 sq ft, 99 MW data center in South San Jose with coordinated PG&E grid expansion (doubled to 80 MW substation capacity). The project signals accelerating infrastructure investment to support AI/compute demand in the Bay Area's prime industrial zone.
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The Wire takeaway
Major real estate player co-investing in transmission infrastructure to unlock 99 MW data center capacity signals tightening compute supply and rising power grid investment as hard constraint for AI workload placement — founders competing for colocation and power should track Silicon Valley substation expansion timelines.
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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Cloud Infrastructure · data-center-buildout · power-infrastructure · silicon-valley-compute · grid-expansion · ai-demand