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Stop the Pittsburg
Data Center
This is not a done deal. City Council approved a hyperscale data center — sold as the "Pittsburg Technology Park" — next to homes and five schools. But nothing is built, the approval is being challenged, and there is still time to act.
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- ●Wear orange to every committee meeting
- ●Use your full 3 minutes of public comment
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Start Where You Are
"What data center?"
You're not alone — most of Pittsburg found out after the vote. Get the basics: what was approved, where, and what it means for your family.
Get the basics →
"Isn't it a done deal?"
No. Nothing has been built, only Phase 1 is approved, and every future phase must pass new environmental review. There is real room to act.
See what's still open →
"I want to help stop it."
Join 25,000+ neighbors already on record. Sign the petition, show up, and speak — three concrete things you can do today.
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About the Project
The Pitch vs. The Reality
For a decade, our City Council called this project the "Pittsburg Technology Park" and sold it as economic development — while quietly negotiating a hyperscale data center. Us residents were never meaningfully told what was actually being built next to our homes and five schools.
Most of us are now learn the truth: a resource-intensive, 500 MW facility bringing permanent air and noise pollution to a residential neighborhood built around families.
Why It Matters
The Impacts on Our Community
Our Resources
A 500 MW data center needs 5x Pittsburg's electricity demand. Long term grid upgrades to feed it, and the cost to run it, can land on our bills, on a grid already running tight.
Our Neighborhoods
To run 24/7, it needs constant cooling noise and 37 diesel generators today, 150+ at full build-out. A low, endless hum and a wall of diesel, 500 feet from homes.
Our Health
Those same generators burn diesel, a known carcinogen with no safe exposure level. They alone drive 95% of the site's asthma-linked NOx, like 5,530 trucks idling for a day.
Our Children
Knowing all of this, the site was pre-approved less than a mile from 5 schools and 3,190 students. The people with the least protection, placed closest to the harm.
Our Jobs
And what do we get for it? AVAIO advertises 500+ jobs. Their own filings say 20 to 30 permanent hires, with no guarantee any go to Pittsburg residents.
Our Community
Decided without us. One council played seller, regulator, and power vendor on a $10.55M no-bid deal. No one spoke for residents.
Have questions about any of this?
See the FAQ →Not a Done Deal
What They Have vs. What's Still Open
"They already voted — it's over." That's how the process was designed to feel. Here is the honest scorecard.
What they have
A 5–0 City Council approval of the three-phase plan (November 2024).
The land — sold by the City for $10.55 million, with no competitive bid.
A settled lawsuit: the Center for Biological Diversity's challenge ended in a December 2025 settlement.
What's still open
Nothing has been built. The site is still an empty field.
Only Phase 1 (92–99 MW) is entitled. The other ~400 MW is not.
The air permit for the 37 diesel generators hasn't been issued — it's still pending at the Air District, and public comment can still shape its conditions or stop it.
The lawsuit settlement requires a separate environmental study for every future phase — each one a new chance for the public to weigh in.
Public comment is open at every Council meeting, and the community workshop the City promised still hasn't been scheduled.
Every seat behind that 5–0 vote answers to voters.
The window between approval and construction is exactly when community pressure counts the most. That window is open now.
Take Action
What You Can Do Today
01
Sign the Petition
Add your name to our community petition to halt permit approval. Over 25,000 residents have already signed.
02
Attend the Meeting
Not on the agenda for the August 17, 2026 meeting (7:00 PM, City Hall, 3rd Floor) — but public comment is still open. Show up anyway.
03
Send a Ready-to-Go Email
Pre-written emails to the Air District, the Fire District, and your representatives from City Hall to Congress — drafted, addressed, and ready to send. Each takes under a minute.
Every Council meeting and its agenda is posted online — and by law, the City must publish the finalized agenda at least 72 hours in advance.
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Our Asks Are Public. So Is the Record.
This campaign runs on the public record — a decade of agendas, minutes, votes, and filings, traced and cited. We are your constituents. What we're asking for is simple:
01
Adopt a moratorium on Phases 2 and 3 — no further approvals until the court-ordered environmental review is complete and certified.
02
Commit that every change to this project comes back to a noticed public hearing — not the Zoning Administrator's streamlined minor-change process.
▸ Verbally committed at the August 3, 2026 Council meeting. Nothing in writing since.
03
Schedule the promised community workshop, with real notice, in every language this city speaks.
▸ Held instead as a Zoom webinar with pre-curated Q&A — not what was promised. That's why we're tracking the City's answers ourselves.