Data Centers in Nvidia's Hometown Stand Empty Awaiting Power
Source: Yahoo! Finance/Bloomberg
Mon, November 10, 2025 at 5:00 AM EST
(Bloomberg) -- Two of the worlds biggest data center developers have projects in Nvidia Corp.s hometown that may sit empty for years because the local utility isnt ready to supply electricity.
In Santa Clara, California, where the worlds biggest supplier of artificial-intelligence chips is based, Digital Realty Trust Inc. applied in 2019 to build a data center. Roughly six years later, the development remains an empty shell awaiting full energization.
Stack Infrastructure, which was acquired earlier this year by Blue Owl Capital Inc., has a nearby 48-megawatt project thats also vacant, while the city-owned utility, Silicon Valley Power, struggles to upgrade its capacity. The fate of the two facilities highlights a major challenge for the US tech sector and indeed the wider economy.
While demand for data centers has never been greater, driven by the boom in cloud computing and AI, access to electricity is emerging as the biggest constraint. That's largely because of aging power infrastructure, a slow build-out of new transmission lines and a variety of regulatory and permitting hurdles.
Read more: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/data-centers-nvidia-hometown-stand-100009877.html
Convert them to affordable housing and pop this damn "AI" bubble already.
Cheezoholic
(3,453 posts)Roy Rolling
(7,355 posts)Sell short Nvidia, Palantir, and the rest of the AI group. That means make profit off of the decline of their stock prices.
Enrich your progressive self by selling overvalued technology stocks and cashing-in on the inevitable collapse.
Dont say I didnt warn share how to beat them at their own gamedont be left holding the bag.
Drum
(10,492 posts)ToxMarz
(2,611 posts)But but but
I thought that self-preservation would be a core imperative?
That hit my funny bone.
Bigerhalf
(33 posts)Let the people who will benefit the most pay for their toys.
Put these eggs in Data Center baskets.
Ukraine showed the world how effective a little drone can be.
progree
(12,548 posts)from the OP's link --
In Oregon, Amazon.com Inc. alleges its been denied sufficient power for four data centers by a Berkshire Hathaway Inc.-owned utility, according to a complaint. (no link to an article about the Oregon Amazon project, so one will have to search -progree).
2naSalit
(98,926 posts)To function.