The historic Cow Palace and several other Bay Area fairgrounds are considering a proposal by a private company to build data centers and helipads across California — with the goal of developing 70 by 2030.
After being approached earlier this year, the Cow Palace is in the early stages of evaluating a proposal from California-based Global Stack, which wants to lease about five acres of the property for a small “edge” data center, a multilevel parking garage, and a helicopter landing pad, as the Chronicle reports.
The proposed project, which requires a 100-year land agreement, would reportedly use less land and power than a typical large-scale data center, with each facility drawing up to 10 megawatts of electricity…