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Read Developer Withdraws Proposal To Convert El Segundo Hotel Into Data Center
Eight Form has withdrawn its proposal to replace a Hyatt Place hotel in El Segundo, California, with a data center. The plan involved demolishing the hotel at 750 N. Nash Street to build a five-sto...

Developer Withdraws Proposal To Convert El Segundo Hotel Into Data Center

July 15, 2026 California

Eight Form has withdrawn its proposal to replace a Hyatt Place hotel in El Segundo, California, with a data center. The plan involved demolishing the hotel at 750 N. Nash Street to build a five-story, 230,780 sq ft (21,440 sqm) facility with 50MW of capacity. Eight Form withdrew the proposal...

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Read 99MW Data Center Planned by Prologis in San Jose
Real estate firm Prologis is planning a 99MW data center in San Jose, California. The proposed three-story facility would span 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) across a 15-acre site on Silver Creek Valle...

99MW Data Center Planned by Prologis in San Jose

July 09, 2026 California

Real estate firm Prologis is planning a 99MW data center in San Jose, California. The proposed three-story facility would span 516,000 sq ft (47,935 sqm) across a 15-acre site on Silver Creek Valley Road and include an on-site substation. Construction is expected to take around two years, with...

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Read Proposed 99MW Data Center in Kern County, California
Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyo...

Proposed 99MW Data Center in Kern County, California

July 07, 2026 California

Applications have been submitted for the development of a 99 MW data center in California. The proposed facility would be located near the intersection of US Highway 395 and State Route 178 in Inyokern, an unincorporated community within Kern County, California. The single-story, 238,000 sq ft...

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Read Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California
Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California

Plans Emerge for 600MW Data Center in Coachella, California

April 11, 2026 California

A 600MW data center could be developed in Coachella, Southern California. Developer DMK Projects is proposing to build the facility on a 240-acre site at the corner of 52nd Avenue and Fillmore Street.Project documents presented at a City Council meeting on February 11 indicate that DMK plans for...

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Read Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class
Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

Californian Senator Proposes Bill to Create New Rate Class

February 06, 2026 California

A new bill has been introduced in the California Senate aimed at regulating the expansion of large load data centers across the state and protecting ratepayers from footing the bill for the generation and transmission infrastructure needed to power them.Introduced by Senator Sasha Renée Pérez...

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Read Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO
Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

Lumen Appoints Jim Fowler as CTO

December 11, 2025 Lumen Technologies

Lumen Technologies has appointed Jim Fowler as its executive vice president and chief technology and product officer. The new CTO is to succeed Dave Ward, who is leaving Lumen to become president and chief architect at Salesforce. Starting from January 6, Fowler will manage global technology and...

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Read 250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition
250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition

250,000 Feet Data Center Proposal in Monterey Park, California Faces opposition

December 06, 2025 California

A proposal to build a 250,000 sq ft (23,225 sqm) data center in Monterey Park, California, is facing opposition from residents. The Monterey Park City Council was set to consider whether to approve the construction of the facility on Wednesday, but significant public hostility towards the...

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Read PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW
PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW

PG&E Data Center Pipeline Shrinks to 9.6GW

October 31, 2025 California

Californian utility company Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) has seen its data center pipeline fall by 400MW compared to June, reporting 9.6GW of projects seeking a connection. While the utility saw a decline in early-stage data center projects in its pipeline, it reported that 18 projects...

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Read PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan
PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

PG&E Announces $73bn Grid Infrastructure Upgrade Plan

September 29, 2025 California

California’s biggest utility company, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), has revealed a new $73 billion spending program to upgrade its grid infrastructure to meet the surging demand from artificial intelligence and cloud computing.The investment is expected to support up to 10GW of new data...

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Read Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center
Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

Ameresco Partners with CyrusOne to Develop Offgrid AI Data Center

September 10, 2025 California

US energy solutions provider Ameresco has partnered with the US Navy and data center developer CyrusOne to develop a 100MW data center at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore, California. The facility will be colocated with a dedicated on-site energy generation facility built by Ameresco, forming a...

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Read CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center
CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

CoreSite Launches Santa Clara Data Center

August 01, 2025 California

US data center firm CoreSite this week announced the completion of SV9, a new 228,000 sq ft (21,181 sqm) facility offering 34MW.“This strategic expansion in Silicon Valley reflects our commitment to delivering the scalable, high-performance infrastructure our customers need to power AI, cloud,...

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Read Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California
Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

Proposed Data Center Scaled Down in San Francisco, California

July 25, 2025 California

The Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project propose in San Francisco, California, has been scaled down amid environmental concerns. The site is located south of San Francisco in the city of Brisbane and the company seeks to construct a 180,000 sq ft (17,000 sqm) data center and an industrial...

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Read Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California
Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

Lambda Installs GB200 NVL72 Rack in California

January 29, 2025 California

GPU cloud provider Lambda has deployed an Nvidia GB200 NVL72 rack system at EdgeCloudLink's (ECL) data center in Mountain View, California. The rack was installed on January 22, and the installation process took around "one hour" due to the flexibility of the data center.In a LinkedIn post, ECL's...

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Read Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations
Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations

Intel shareholders file lawsuit alleging federal securities laws violations

December 21, 2024 California

Intel shareholders have filed a derivative lawsuit against the company, alleging executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, made false and misleading statements about the reorganization of a manufacturing segment. The lawsuit accuses Intel executives, including former CEO Pat Gelsinger, of...

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Read Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at LLNL
Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at LLNL

Oxide Cloud Computer to be installed at LLNL

November 18, 2024 California

Oxide Computer Company and the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) are teaming up to bring on-premises cloud capabilities to the LLNL supercomputing center. The startup will be deploy its rack-scale Oxide Cloud Computer at LLNL's high performance computing (HPC) center in Livermore,...

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Read SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator
SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

SiFive unveils RISC-V based AI accelerator

September 20, 2024 California

RISC-V chipmaker SiFive has announced a new series of AI accelerators for high-performance workloads including its Intelligence XM Series which it claims is the first IP to include a scalable matrix engine, designed to accelerate time-to-market for semiconductor companies building system-on-chip...

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Read IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes
IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

IBM announces two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes

August 28, 2024 California

IBM has announced two new AI-focused chips for its Z-systems mainframes at the Hot Chips 2024 event this week in California. The new Telum II chip which was designed to power IBM Z systems features increased frequency, memory capacity, a 40 percent growth in cache, and integrated AI accelerator...

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Read Arrcus raises $30m in funding round
Arrcus raises $30m in funding round

Arrcus raises $30m in funding round

July 20, 2024 California

Hyperscale networking firm Arrcus has raised $30 million in an investment round with investments from Nvidia and Hitachi Ventures amongst others. "We are thrilled to welcome Nvidia as our latest investor and look forward to building on our collaboration. Arrcus’ leading networking software...

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Read CPUC denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties
CPUC  denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties

CPUC denies AT&T’s request to be released from COLR duties

June 26, 2024 California

The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) has voted to deny AT&T’s request to be released from its duties as Carrier of Last Resort (COLR) in the state, leaving the company legally obligated to provide its telephone services to anyone who asks."Despite AT&T’s contention that...

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Read Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California
Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

Oxide deploys hardware on CoreSite data center in California

April 24, 2024 California

New cloud company Oxide is deploying its on-premise hardware at CoreSite’s data center in Silicon Valley. It also announced this week that it would ‘leverage colocation solutions’ at CoreSite's Silicon Valley SV2 data center. “The Oxide Cloud Computer empowers developers to build, run, and...

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