New planning documents submitted to the Seattle Department of Construction and Inspections outline a proposal for a small data center within the SoDo complex that houses Starbucks’ corporate headquarters. The filing details a plan to introduce digital infrastructure into a portion of the existing campus rather than through a separate, standalone facility.
According to the application materials, the concept centers on converting approximately 45,600 square feet of existing commercial space into an environment designed to accommodate servers, storage systems and networking equipment. The project would be located at 2401 Utah Ave. S, within Starbucks Center, the large SoDo campus that serves as the world headquarters for Starbucks. The work would span portions of two buildings within the broader Starbucks Center property, concentrating the new use in select areas of the campus.
Colossus Data Center Advisors is identified in the materials as the firm that would develop the project. The company is described as a specialized advisory firm focused on data center facilities, indicating a role in shaping the program for a relatively small-scale deployment rather than a hyperscale installation. No changes in ownership or overarching control of the property are referenced in the documents summarized.
The proposal also addresses site planning and building systems, including the need to accommodate new power and cooling infrastructure. Plans call for exterior electrical and mechanical equipment to be installed in a west parking area at the campus. To make room for this equipment, roughly 29 surface parking spaces would be removed from that portion of the property, shifting some on-site parking capacity to support the building systems required for data center operations.
Project documentation notes that the proposed facility would operate below the 20-megavolt-amperes threshold established under Seattle’s recent restrictions on large data centers. By remaining under this limit, the planned installation would be categorized as a smaller-scale data center use under the city’s framework for regulating power-intensive computing facilities. The filings do not provide information on project cost, timeline, tenanting details or any associated capital markets activity related to the redevelopment of the space.
