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Former LBNL supercomputing facility in Oakland, California, targeted for 20MW data center
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A real estate firm is planning to develop a data center in Oakland, California.
Key facts
- The company acquired the vacant 83,000-square-foot (7,710 sqm) office building from Hines in December for $6.8m
- The National Science Facility hosted hardware for the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) from around 2001, performing a major retrofit to install an IBM RS/6000 SP
- Hines had hoped to build a 39-story, 800,000 sq ft (74,322 sqm) office tower, but dropped the plans in 2023, saying it was “not economically feasible to develop in the current market
- First reported by BizJournal, real estate firm Behring Cos. is planning to convert 415 20th Street into a 20MW data center
Summary
First reported by BizJournal, real estate firm Behring Cos. is planning to convert 415 20th Street into a 20MW data center. The four-story facility was once a supercomputer facility for the Lawrence Berkeley National Labs, known as the Oakland Scientific Facility, but is now vacant. Currently offering 4.5MW, Behring said it is renovating the site and boosting its power offering to be used for dense AI compute. “It’s going to be one of the most capable AI inference compute facilities in the inner Bay Area,” Behring told BJ.