AVAIO Digital Partners, a developer and operator of sustainable hyperscale data centers in North America and Europe, is moving ahead with plans to develop a 92 MW data center campus as the $800 million first phase of its 76-acre Pittsburg Technology Park in Northern California.
Construction on the 22-acre first phase of the business park in Pittsburg, Calif., is expected to begin in the second quarter of 2025. The data center should be ready for energization in 2027. It will be capable of supporting cloud, high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, government and enterprise workloads.
The Perseus Data Center project will be on the site of the former municipal Delta View Golf Course in Pittsburg in Contra Costa County. Plans call for a three-story, 347,740-square-foot data center building, a substation and switching station to be erected north of the Contra Costa Canal. The site is located on Golf Club Road, south of West Leland Road. It is situated 45 miles from San Francisco and 60 miles from Santa Clara, Calif.
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The Pittsburg City Council signed off on the Pittsburg Technology Park Specific Plan, which will guide implementation of the three-phase development, on Nov. 18. The City Council approved the sale of part of the 175-acre golf course to Pittsburg Land Holdings, a subsidiary of Stamford, Conn.,-based ADP, for $16.7 million in July 2022. The remainder of the golf course, which was closed in 2018, will be used for recreation, including sports fields.
Details for the ADP’s plans for the subsequent two phases were not released at this time. However, documents filed with the City of Pittsburg noted Phases II and III will cover land south of the canal and “allow for the further development of the plan area as a dynamic employment hub and light industrial uses.”
Perseus highlights
According to ADP, a data center business managed by AVAIO Capital, the Perseus facility will exemplify the company’s focus on sustainability. It is situated in an area where more than 90 percent of the grid power is from zero carbon sources, wind and solar supplied by Pittsburg Power Co. ADP has secured commitments for recycled water that will cover all of its cooling and non-potable water needs and will also incorporate on-site solar. The facility has been designed to use biofuels for its back-up generators.
The company has also secured a commitment from Pacific Gas & Electric, with access to seven different 230 kV power lines. Through a partnership with Pittsburg Power Co., the project will save companies money by offering power rates competitive with Silicon Valley Power in Santa Clara, a non-for-profit municipal electric utility owned and operated by the City of Santa Clara. The Pittsburg Power Co. is a municipal joint powers agency established between the City of Pittsburg and the city’s Redevelopment Agency that performs as a municipal utility with the authority to provide wholesale and electric and gas services.