14 DAY TRIAL // San Jose shows up in news about technology almost as often as Santa Clara does, as both of them are important sites in Silicon Valley. We've just learned that a massive technology corporate site will be built in San Jose.
Silicon Valley occupies roughly the same area as the Santa Clara Valley, in the South Bay portion of the San Francisco Bay Area in Northern California, United States.
It is where many of the world's largest technology corporations are based, along with thousands of small startups for that matter.
For all that San Jose is the central town, however, it is not really the place where the biggest companies have their headquarters.
Intel is based in Santa Clara, for example, the same as NVIDIA, while Advanced Micro Devices operates out of Sunnyvale.
Still, Downtown San Jose is dubbed the Capital of Silicon Valley, and it is where companies like the following have their main buildings: Adobe, Altera, Brocade Communications Systems, Cadence Design Systems, Cisco Systems, eBay, Lee's Sandwiches.
It also explains why most of the patent wars, including the ongoing one between Apple and Samsung (over which of the other's smartphones and tablets should be banned) are overseen by the San Jose district court.
The San Jose Mercury News channel has just reported that a massive mass of land has been set aside for the building of a new technological site.
It might not be quite the largest project ever, but it is definitely up there with the biggest of them, set to measure 2 million square feet (or about 185,000 square feet) spread out over 10 structures with seven stories each. There will be 7,000 parking spaces, plus a fitness center.
10,000 employees will work there, or at the very least 8,000, which puts the corporation behind the project just behind Cisco, whose site is currently the biggest, or at least the one with the most workers: 13,000.
The site is located at the split of U.S. 101 and Interstate 880, near the Mineta San Jose International Airport. Facebook Inc.'s Menlo Park campus is half the size in comparison. All in all, the buildings have been valued at $700 million / €507 million.
San Jose Mayor Chuck Reed is among the few who know to whom the site will belong, but he's keeping the information close to his chest for now. That it's a tech company is all anyone else has been told so far. Maybe the identity will surface once construction work starts, later this year.