Data centers for AI could nearly triple San Jose''s energy use.
According to the state''s electricity-demand forecast, utilities report that data centers, in planning documents, have requested 18.7 gigawatts of service capacity. That''s enough to
In San Jose, city energy officials say they are reluctant to procure additional power until they know which projects will actually be built. “We do not want to buy more power than we need,” said panelist Lori Mitchell, director of San Jose Clean Energy, the city's publicly-owned electricity provider.
Data centers for AI could nearly triple San Jose's energy use. Who foots the bill? Servers stacked in the Edgecloud Link data center in Mountain View on July 28, 2025. Photo by Aric Crabb, Bay Area News Group Artificial intelligence and its growing demand for data centers are putting new pressure on California's electric grid.
Even more demand for electricity might sprout in San Jose. City officials intend to negotiate with developer Prologis on a plan to develop a 159-acre site in North San Jose near the municipal sewage treatment plant. The project could include four massive data centers and four buildings for advanced manufacturing uses.
San Jose, the symbolic capital of Silicon Valley, is now ground zero in California's battle over how to govern the rise of data centers used to power artificial intelligence. The county seat of Santa Clara is touting its partnership with Pacific Gas & Electric, claiming the city is “the West Coast's premier destination for data center development.”
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