DATA CENTER BUILDERS CONTINUE TO POUR MONEY INTO YES ON 45 CAMPAIGN

$4 Million+ Put into Polluters’ Ballot Measure to Reduce Community Input

SACRAMENTO – Prologis, which is planning five data centers in San Jose alone, has contributed another $250,000 to the Yes on Proposition 45 campaign, according to records filed with the California Secretary of State. The contribution brings the San Rafael-based company’s contributions to the Yes on 45 campaign through its “Modern Infrastructure Alliance Action Fund” to $500,000.

Prologis’s data centers will be powered by PG&E, which recently routed another $1.8 million to a committee supporting the Prop 45 campaign on top of past contributions to the Prop 45 effort of $250,000 and $500,000, upping the total amount of data center company-related contributions to the Yes on Prop 45 campaign to over $4 million.

According to the state’s leading land use attorneys, Proposition 45 would provide data center builders short cuts around community and environmental protections by limiting review of data center projects.

“Follow the money,” says No on Prop 45 spokesperson Woody Little. “Data center builders are pouring millions into securing passage of the flailing Proposition 45 because they know it will help them avoid the public scrutiny current law provides. You don’t have to do much to connect the dots between their massive contributions and their desire to change the law.”

Proposition 45 is the California Chamber of Commerce’s 41-page ballot initiative that would roll back state environmental protections and weaken the state’s defense against President Trump’s attack on state clean air, water, and public health laws.

According to data center industry tracker “Data Center Dynamics,” Prologis plans to ramp up to 10GW of data center power capacity in the next ten years. For context, 10GW would consume nearly as much electricity as every home in California combined.

In California, Prologis is planning at least five data centers in San Jose, including a massive 99-megawatt, 516,050 square foot facility.

Another data center builder, the California Resources Corporation, sent $500,000 to a Chamber-controlled PAC just after Prop 45 cleared for circulation and another $500,000 directly to the campaign in August.

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