Facebook leases big Santa Clara data center sites
Facebook has rented several data center complexes in Santa Clara, all located near the corner of Northwestern Parkway and Walsh Avenue, official documents show.
SANTA CLARA — Facebook has leased several big data center buildings in Santa Clara, greatly widening the Silicon Valley presence of the social networking colossus outside of its home territory in Menlo Park.
The data center complexes that Facebook leased are all located near the corner of Northwestern Parkway and Walsh Avenue in Santa Clara, according to official documents filed in Santa Clara County.
The buildings that Facebook has leased total a combined 335,000 square feet, according to a post on the web site for Vantage Data Centers, which is the property owner for the Santa Clara data site.
Facebook signed a lease on Jan. 29 for the data center sites, official documents filed in late February show.
The addresses for the Santa Clara sites were listed as 2480, 2880, and 2820 Northwestern Parkway; and 2565 and 2625 Walsh Ave., according to the public records.
“Our flagship campus in the heart of Silicon Valley” is how Vantage Data Centers describes the complex where Facebook has leased space, the web site shows. The site totals 21 acres, Vantage Data Centers stated.
Menlo Park-based Facebook has begun to venture further away in the Bay Area from its home town in recent years.
In an array of leasing transactions and property development endeavors, Facebook has created at least three Bay Area campuses totaling a minimum of 1 million square feet each.
The million-square-foot Facebook job hubs, all office campuses, are in Menlo Park, Sunnyvale, and Fremont. Facebook also has big office facilities in San Francisco.
Now, it appears that the social network giant hungers for data center sites as well, as the tech titan’s ventures widen and it attracts a growing number of members for its sites.
Others in the tech sector also have a growing appetite for data centers.
In Santa Clara, on Mission College Boulevard, Amazon Web Services has leased and gained an option to buy a big site where a data center totaling 496,000 square feet is slated to be developed once an existing building on the property is bulldozed.
“Tenants use data center space for a variety of purposes, including corporate information technology services, research labs, and high-performance computing, as well as cloud deployments,” according to an analysis posted in September 2019 by Data Center Frontier.
As social networks and technology computing become more complex and intuitive, the types of needs could widen greatly.
“Growing adoption of artificial intelligence is driving more demand for high-density computing,” Data Center Frontier stated in its analysis.