Inside A California Data Center Seeking To Model A New Era Of Sustainability
DataCenter Knowledge, Tuesday, July 29th, 2025
A new data center plan from Arcadis and Terra Ventures utilizes heat waste, eliminates backup generators, and promises a community greenhouse.
The environmental impacts of the AI-supercharged data center industry are global, but they're also local. Objections to new data center projects in communities across the US have focused on the perception that, along with new development, comes higher emissions, overburdened utilities, and massive land grabs.
Those concerns are top of mind for engineering design firm Arcadis and developer Terra Ventures as they plan to open a new San Jose, California, facility they call 'one of the most sustainable data centers in the world.'