Silicon Valley data centers totalling nearly 100MW could ‘sit empty for years’ due to lack of power — huge installations are idle because Santa Clara can’t cope with surging electricity demands

In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world’s most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty. Digital Realty’s four-story SJC37 facility and Stack Infrastructure’s SVY02A campus in Santa Clara, California, were both constructed to host tens of megawatts of high-density IT hardware. Instead, they’re waiting for electricity.

According to a Bloomberg report, both projects are complete but idle, with no firm timeline for full energization. Digital…