Behring Innovation Campus AI Data Center (415 20th St)
Oakland, Alameda County, CA
Plans have been filed for Behring Innovation Campus AI Data Center (415 20th St), a data center in Oakland, CA. The project is sized at 4.5 MW. Behring Companies (developer Colin Behring) submitted a zoning determination request to build about 20,000 sq ft of AI data center space on the ground floor of 415 20th Street in downtown Oakland (Uptown, near the 19th St BART station), part of a larger roughly 1.3M sq ft "innovation campus" redevelopment. Initial capacity 4.5MW with potential to scale to 20MW; no tenant confirmed as of Sept 2026, though tours given to robotics/cloud/AI research firms. Faces organized opposition ("No Data Centers in Oakland"); Councilmember Carroll Fife introduced a 45-day citywide moratorium on new data center approvals, which passed the Life Enrichment Committee on Sept 22, 2026 and heads to full City Council Oct 6, 2026.
- 4.5 MWPlanned capacity
Project status
- Announced
- Permitting
- Under constructionNot yet
- OperationalNot yet
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California state legislation
- CPUC Resolution E-5420 - PG&E Service to STACK Infrastructure (San Jose)Approved PG&E special facilities/service arrangement for a 90MW STACK Infrastructure data center in San Jose.Download
- CPUC Resolution E-5439 - PG&E Service to Microsoft "SJC02" (San Jose)Approved PG&E special facilities/service arrangement for a 90MW Microsoft data center campus in San Jose.Download
- CPUC Application A.24-11-007 - PG&E Electric Rule 30 Revision (Large Transmission-Load Tariff)PG&E-filed revision to Electric Rule 30 creating tariff terms for large transmission-voltage loads (data centers), including minimum-take and collateral provisions.Download
- SB 886 - Data center electricity rates: separate rate classCreates a separate electricity rate class for data centers.Download
- SB6231 - Removes data center equipment replacement tax exemptionRemoves the tax exemption for replacement of data center equipment.Download
- SB 2406 - Data center nondisclosure agreement penaltiesEstablishes penalties for data center nondisclosure agreements.Download
- SB960 - Data center electric cost allocation studyDirects the SCC to determine whether non-data-center customers subsidize data centers.Download
- HB05076 - AI data center energy/water efficiency requirementsConcerns energy and water efficiency requirements for AI data centers.Download
- SB 887California bill removing CEQA categorical exemptions as applied to data center projects.Download
- S08540 - Accountability of Costs for Data Centers ActEstablishes independent classification of service for large energy-use facilities to allocate data center costs.Download
- HB1246 - Prohibits nondisclosure of data center agreementsProhibits nondisclosure of certain agreements related to data centers.Download
- SB 1168 - Data centers: rate structuresEstablishes rate structures applicable to data centers.Download
- CPUC Rulemaking R.26-04-009 - Advanced Rate Design (Large Load / Data Center Cost Allocation)Statewide rulemaking opened 2026, driven by SB 57, addressing cost allocation and rate design for large-load customers including data centers.Download
- CPUC Advice Letter 7785-E / Draft Resolution E-5455 - PG&E Service to Google (San Jose, 250MW)Pending as of Sep 2026 -- PG&E advice letter for a 250MW Google data center in San Jose, protested by the Public Advocates Office over ratepayer cost allocation.Download
- AB2469 - Data centers: water use disclosures.Description comingDownload
- AB1095 - Data centers: waste heat energy.Description comingDownload
- AB93 - Water resources: data centers.Description comingDownload
- SB57 - Electrical corporations: data centers: report.Description comingDownload
- AB2619 - Water resources: data centers.Description comingDownload
- SB978 - Data centers: labor: electricity rates.Description comingDownload
- AB1577 - Data centers: reporting.Description comingDownload
- AB2383 - Electricity: data centers.Description comingDownload
- AB222 - Data centers: power usage effectiveness: cost shifts.Description comingDownload
Site details
- Operator
- Not announced
- County
- Alameda County, CA
- Capacity
- 4.5 MW
- Address
- Oakland, CA
- Stage
- Planned
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Billionaire-backed data center proposals cause rift in OaklandSanta Rosa Press Democrat
Billionaire-backed data center proposals cause rift in OaklandThe Mercury News
Hayward: City Council Approves Data Center MoratoriumSFGATE
Hayward: City Council To Consider Data Center Moratorium In OctoberSFGATE
California and Texas Announce Restrictions on Data Center DevelopmentBusiness Insider
Newsom signs ‘most comprehensive data center laws’ in USSanta Rosa Press Democrat
California tightens rules on AI data center energy and water useThe Verge
California enacts data center laws giving communities more control over facilitiesCBS News
An $8 billion Treasury break helped Meta’s tax rate hit 2%. Senators want data center tax answersFortune
The states with the fewest and most data centers, rankedBusiness Insider
Finns Are Seething After Google Illegally Toppled 250,000 Trees for a Data CenterMother Jones
Google offer to pay others to help data center powerArkansas Online
This bill would make data centers pay their own way for powerSalt Lake City Deseret News
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