'Small-Scale' Data Center Proposed Inside Starbucks Center in Seattle

'The spookiest thing imaginable in Seattle': Jake questions data center fears as small facility eyed for Starbucks HQ building

As a small data center is being eyed for the ground floor of the Starbucks headquarters building in SODO, according to The Seattle Times, KIRO host Jake Skorheim questioned whether the fear over data centers is warranted. “The building owners are thinking about renting out some of the unused space, which used to be an Amazon Fresh, apparently, and so what they’re discussing now is putting in a data center, which is just the spookiest thing imagi…

'Small-scale' data center proposed inside Starbucks Center in Seattle

Seattle City Council enacted a one-year moratorium on new "large" data centers within city limits. The proposed center is below the moratorium's size threshold.

Starbucks building in Sodo may house a new data center

A "small-scale" data center has been proposed at Seattle's headquarters in Sodo, just days after new data center restrictions in the city.

Colossus Data Center Advisors Files Plans for 45,600 SQFT Facility at Seattle’s Starbucks Center

A small advisory firm has filed plans to convert former retail space inside Seattle’s Starbucks Center into a data center — a proposal that arrives less than two weeks after the Seattle City Council unanimously enacted a one-year moratorium on large data center development within city limits, and that is engineered specifically to fall beneath the power threshold that triggered the ban. Colossus Data Center Advisors submitted conceptual permit d…

Small data center proposed at Starbucks HQ building in Sodo - The Daily Chronicle

Something is brewing at the Starbucks headquarters in Seattle’s Sodo neighborhood — and it’s not coffee. A “small-scale” data center is proposed for the iconic building’s ground floor at 2401 Utah Avenue South, which used to house an Amazon Fresh pickup location until January 2024, according to permit records. The story was first reported by The Daily Journal of Commerce. But wait, didn’t the Seattle City Council just ban new data centers within…