Data centers in California

About California

California has the third-largest number of listed data centers among US states: 231 facilities, 9 percent of the 2,612 listed in the United States, run by 36 operators in 51 towns and cities. Santa Clara has by far the most with 59, followed by San Jose with 22, Los Angeles with 21 and Sunnyvale with 15. Irvine (13), and El Segundo and San Diego (10 each) come next. The directory's three California markets are Silicon Valley with 107 facilities, Los Angeles with 45 and Orange County with 22.

Centersquare has the most listings in the state, 25, followed by Lumen with 22, Digital Realty with 21 and Equinix with 18. Colocation sites account for 156 of the records.

Capacity is published in two measures that should not be added together. Of the 19 buildings with a published IT load, the largest is DataBank's LAX2 in Vernon at 32 MW, ahead of NTT's CA2 in Sacramento at 26.1 MW. Of the 16 with a published utility supply, the largest is Digital Realty SJC37 in Santa Clara at 100 MW. By floor area, Vantage's Santa Clara II campus is the largest listed building, at 541,000 square feet, ahead of Digital Realty SFO10 in San Francisco.

2 facilities are under construction, both Serverfarm sites, in Burbank and Santa Clara, and 11 listed facilities are recorded as closed. 1 facility holds an Uptime Institute certification, at Tier III.