San José and PG&E are preparing massive grid upgrades, but AI demand could nearly triple the city's energy use.

The Monterey Park City Council this week postponed a key vote on a controversial, proposed data center in town, amid public demands for more time to weigh in on the project.

A proposal to build a 250,000 sq ft (23,225 sqm) data center in Monterey Park, California, is facing opposition from ...

California legislators considered dozens of bills related to artificial intelligence this year. That’s a number that’s climbed quickly over the last couple years as lawmakers grapple with the ...

Across California, some of the most power-hungry buildings ever permitted are rising on former farmland and warehouse tracts, yet many of them may sit largely idle for years. The race to build data ...

California is a major hub for data centers — the facilities that store and transmit much of the internet. But just how much these power-hungry operations affect the state’s energy use, climate and ...

The construction of a data center is meant to bolster the local economy and housing market by attracting potential businesses ...

The data-center economy is booming in California, and Gov. Gavin Newsom doesn’t want to slow it down. The governor vetoed a bill on Saturday that would have provided more transparency around the water ...

This story was originally published by CalMatters. Sign up for their newsletters. California lawmakers started the year signaling they were ready to get tough on data centers, aiming to protect the ...

A look at what’s happening in California shows that even in an environmentally progressive state, unhealthy emissions and ...

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