Intel Santa Clara (D2P3)

Intel’s D2P3 data center in Santa Clara, California, is the company’s largest and most energy-efficient facility, occupying 30,000 square feet within a repurposed semiconductor fabrication plant. With a power capacity of 31MW, it supports around 150,000 servers and is a cornerstone of Intel’s internal compute infrastructure, used for everything from chip design to enterprise workloads.

The facility achieves an exceptionally low Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) of 1.06, thanks to its close-coupled evaporative cooling system that uses recycled wastewater from the city—cutting both costs and environmental impact. Intel also optimized rack design with 60U, 20-inch-wide racks that support up to 280 servers and 43kW per rack, maximizing density and efficiency.