DataBank San Diego data center
DataBank lists a data center at San Diego, California among the sites it operates. It is running; the record holds no sourced date for when it reached that stage.
How much water it would use and who would use it have not been disclosed.
How to read this page. Every fact links to the source it rests on; a number in brackets is its place in the source list. A figure no source gives reads Not disclosed, and nothing is estimated. Where sources give different figures, each is shown with who gave it, and another source's figure never stands in for the record's own. Entries are added and never overwritten; corrections are listed under What happened.
What is known
Each figure as its source gave it. The number in brackets is its place in the source list.
- Land
- Not disclosed
- Power it would draw
- 2 MW
- the developer's figure [2]
- Water
- Not disclosed
- Who leads it
- DataBank
- as stated by the source
- Who would use it
- Not disclosed
- Jobs once it runs
- Not disclosed
- Tax each year
- Not disclosed
Every field, with who said it and when (Researcher view)
Impact figures
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| How much power it needs | 2 MW | the developer's figure | [2] today.ucsd.edu | September 25, 2026 |
| How much water it would use | Not disclosed | |||
| How loud it would be | Not disclosed | |||
| Jobs once it runs | Not disclosed | |||
| Tax it would pay each year | Not disclosed |
The record's fields
| Field | Value | Who says so | Source | Last verified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who is building it | DataBank | as stated by the source | September 25, 2026 | |
| Who is constructing it | Not disclosed | |||
| How much land | Not disclosed | |||
| Where its power comes from | Not disclosed | |||
| Grid connection | Not disclosed | |||
| How it is cooled | Not disclosed |
The developer's figure is what the company said; what a permit allows is the ceiling a permit sets; measured means observed. Water is in gallons a day or a year, whichever the source stated; a tax claim given as a range shows both ends, each linked to the source that gave it.
Still not public, and where it would show up
The record adds each the day a source gives it. Why these documents.
- Water useA state water right filing or a water supply agreement.
- Who would use itA lease announcement or a tenant named in a filing.
- Jobs and taxAn incentive agreement, a county's economic development filing or a fiscal note.
What happened
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· Status: running (the day the page was read; it gives no date of its own)
DataBank lists DataBank San Diego data center at San Diego, California on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What was said
Pradeep K. Khosla, Chancellor, said the research has potential to transform how AI data centers interact with the electric grid
Brian Balderston, director of infrastructure and data centers for SDSC, said data centers can be active participants in grid stability
Every statement about data centers in California, by speaker
The site
Where in San Diego is not in the public record. The pin marks the center of San Diego, not a building, and the outline is San Diego County.
Tap a pin for the data center, the parcel for its record
- This record: Running, ringed
- data center
- Dashed edge: the exact site is not in the public record
- Smaller pins: 29 other published records in California
Details
- this record's location, ringed
- parcel outline, from the county parcel record
- city limits, U.S. Census Bureau, on a town level record
- county boundary
The other pins are the published projects in the same state, each in its stage color. The imagery beneath is the USGS national orthoimagery, public domain, shown so the land around the site can be read.
- Where
- San Diego, San Diego County, California
- How exactly it is located
- Town level, the center of the city
- The parcel
- No parcel outline in the public record
- Nearest homes
- Not computed for a record placed at a place center
- Nearest records
- Nearest records are not computed for a record placed at the center of its town.
Questions about this project
5 questions answered from the record
How big is DataBank San Diego data center?
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The record has one measure of its size: 2 MW (the developer's figure, source). Its acreage is not disclosed.
Who is building DataBank San Diego data center?
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DataBank is the developer. No construction contractor is named on the record yet.
How much power and water does DataBank San Diego data center say it needs?
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Power: 2 MW (the developer's figure, source). Water: not disclosed by any source on file.
Where does DataBank San Diego data center stand today?
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It is running; the date it reached that stage is not sourced, only the day a page was read. The newest entry, read on September 14, 2026: DataBank lists DataBank San Diego data center at San Diego, California on its own page of data center locations, read September 14, 2026. [1]
What has San Diego or San Diego County decided about it?
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No decision by San Diego or San Diego County about data centers is on the record. The San Diego County page and the California scorecard list every rated row the day a person publishes one.
Sources
Primary documents
- DataBank: Data centers, DataBank, September 14, 2026
Reporting
- UC San Diego to Test Innovative Power Technology for AI Data Centers - UC San Diego Today, UC San Diego Today, August 24, 2026, local outlet
2 sources on file.
Cite this record
Data Center Record, "DataBank San Diego data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/databank-san-diego-data-center-ca, last verified September 25, 2026.
Cite this page
Data Center Record, "DataBank San Diego data center", https://datacenterrecord.org/projects/databank-san-diego-data-center-ca. Data: Data Center Record, datacenterrecord.org, CC BY 4.0.
The structured rows are CC BY 4.0. Link to this page; that is what turns a reuse into a citation. Prose stays under copyright.
For researchers
- Slug
- databank-san-diego-data-center-ca
- Status value
- operational
- Stage
- Running
- Tier
- skeleton
- Tags
- skeleton
- Place id
- us/ca/san-diego-county/san-diego
- Coordinates
- 32.830324, -117.1227002
- Location precision
- city
- Location source
- U.S. Census Bureau TIGERweb city centroid, public domain
- Coordinate source
- tigerweb city centroid
- Location source number
- Not disclosed
- Location last verified
- September 14, 2026
- EPA registry id
- Not disclosed
- Use type values
- not_disclosed
- Tenancy value
- not_disclosed
- Cooling type value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity basis
- developer_estimate
- Water basis
- not_disclosed, gallons_per_day
- Acreage basis
- Not disclosed
- Interconnection value
- not_disclosed
- Capacity, if disclosed
- 2 MW, the developer's figure
- Rating of the county's rows
- Not disclosed
- Published
- 2026-09-14
- Last verified
- 2026-09-25