Vancouver-based Westbank is planning at least two projects in downtown San Jose featuring residential towers adjacent to data centers that will generate heat for the homes.
At an Innovation Summit hosted in the city last week by investor-owned utility PG&E, Westbank disclosed that its long-term plan is to create a downtown San Jose “district energy system” that will link a cluster of housing developments paired with data hubs, the San Jose Mercury News reported.
Westbank is planning to include a stand-alone data center at its Orchard Residential development, where it has proposed to build three residential towers, each 30 stories high, encompassing a total of 1,147 units on a site at the corner of South First Street and East San Carlos Street.
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