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Latest data center news, projects, power and policy across California — updated daily.
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CAISO posts Large Loads Initiative draft final proposal and tariff language for comment (Large Loads Initiative)
Source: California ISO · Sep 24, 2026CAISO says its Large Loads Initiative draft final proposal and draft tariff language would add rules for large loads, including “Procedures to improve large load information visibility,” a “Framework to prevent cost-shifting,” and a “Framework for a flexible interim load interconnection (FILI) service to expedite interconnection.” CAISO also says the proposal adds detail on “operational requirements for the FILI framework” and “interactions between load interconnection studies and the transmission planning process,” while deferring a permanent flexible load interconnection option to future stakeholder processes.
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CAISO schedules Large Loads Initiative stakeholder meeting and draft final proposal comment period
Source: California ISO · Sep 10, 2026According to CAISO, the ISO will host a hybrid stakeholder meeting on Oct. 1, 2026 for the Large Loads Initiative, post a draft final proposal on Sep. 24, 2026, and open comments due by Oct. 15, 2026. CAISO also says stakeholders will review the proposal before it goes to the Board of Governors and before the ISO files tariff language with FERC, indicating an active regulatory process for large loads in California.
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Large Loads Initiative: Additional discussion of operational and technical requirements, call on 8/24/26
Source: California ISO · Aug 17, 2026California ISO said it scheduled an additional stakeholder meeting for the Large Loads Initiative “to provide additional time, if needed, to discuss the operational and technical requirements” in the Large Loads Straw Proposal and Large Loads Technical Requirements Straw Proposal, with topics including “Operational requirements” and “Technical requirements” (California ISO, Aug. 17, 2026). The notice also says the Aug. 24 meeting was contingent and ultimately unnecessary because “We were able to cover all of the material and will no longer need the meeting on 8/24.”
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Large Loads Initiative: Straw proposal posted, meeting on 8/19/26
Source: California ISO · Aug 12, 2026California ISO says that, following the FERC “June 18, 2026, Order to Show Cause,” its Large Loads Initiative is the “primary forum” for possible “tariff, policy, and process enhancements” affecting large-load integration on the ISO-controlled grid, including “planning, interconnection, transmission service, reliability, and operational considerations.” CAISO also says the straw proposal will address “Cost Shifting Risk Among Transmission Customers,” “Co-Location Arrangements and Load with Behind the Meter Generation,” and “Interconnection Customers Serving Electrically Proximate Large Load and Co-Located Load.”
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Large Loads Considerations: Comment deadline on information session moved to 2/25/26
Source: California ISO · Feb 12, 2026California ISO said it “has moved the deadline for written comments on the Large Load Considerations issue paper and Feb. 5 meeting discussion to Feb. 25, 2026,” and asked stakeholders to submit comments by end of day Feb. 25, 2026. The notice also says the “issue paper, presentation, and meeting recording are available” on CAISO’s Large Load webpage.
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Recent California data center news
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Trump Honors Microsoft’s CEO After Vance Drops an H-1B Visa Hammer on the Company
The White House honored major technology leaders while Vice President JD Vance separately criticized Microsoft over H-1B visa use and said the company was being suspended from a program for skilled foreign workers.
- JD Vance said Microsoft had abused the visa system, citing 6,000 U.S. worker layoffs last year alongside 6,300 H-1B visas and almost 3,000 green cards; Microsoft said most H-1B applications were to extend or change status for existing employees.
- President Donald Trump awarded the National Medal of Technology and Innovation to Satya Nadella and gave National Medal of Science awards to Elon Musk, Sergey Brin, Jensen Huang, and Lisa Su; he also praised AI and data center investment as helping the U.S. economy.
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Connectivity has become key in office leasing decisions
WiredScore and commercial real estate firms have reported that office occupiers are increasingly tech-focused and require higher-capacity digital connectivity infrastructure.
- Tech demand rose 19% quarter-over-quarter in Q2 2026, with stronger gains in New York City, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, according to VTS.
- WiredScore said more than 90% of senior decision makers view digital connectivity as fundamental as utilities, while nearly 60% would not lease space that is not AI-ready; the report also cites connectivity costs of about 4% of standard base building costs or $11.03 per square foot.
- The piece is a news report summarizing findings from WiredScore, VTS, CBRE, CoStar, JLL, and Cushman & Wakefield; it does not announce a new deal or project.
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OCP Global Summit: Amid Ecosystem Adoption, NVIDIA Opens Vera Rubin Architecture to Help Scale AI Factories Worldwide
NVIDIA announced a set of new partnerships, open standards, and open-source contributions at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit in San Jose, focused on scaling AI factory infrastructure.
- NVIDIA contributed Vera Rubin rack and compute tray designs to OCP via MGX and joined partners in advancing open standards for AI factories, including the Open Data Center Specification v0.7 and the OCP Grid Resilience Specification.
- The company also announced new DSX AI Factory open-source software components, as well as networking collaborations with Meta, Cisco, and Google covering Spectrum-6, USFP, and Falcon Transport; Visionbay.ai also unveiled an 800V DC AI factory design.
- This is a new announcement from NVIDIA, presented as event news and partner updates rather than a retrospective; the article also references earlier-created NVIDIA architectures and specifications as context.
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It’s not your model — AI has a data movement problem
The article argues that enterprises scaling AI are often facing network and connectivity problems rather than compute or model failures.
- It cites recent research showing 59% of organizations report bandwidth issues and 53% report latency challenges, and says AI agents can generate up to 450% more network traffic per task than humans.
- The piece references Cisco Live, Azure, and Google Cloud as examples, and emphasizes that performance problems often emerge across Latin America, Asia, and Africa when AI deployments move beyond initial local testing.
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Oracle reportedly lands $7B GPU deal for Tencent
Oracle and Tencent are reported to have signed a five-year AI cloud computing agreement. - Oracle would provide Tencent access to roughly 100,000 advanced AI accelerators in Oracle data centers across Southeast Asia; the reported contract value is $7 billion and Tencent would pay about 30% upfront. - The report says neither company has publicly confirmed the deal or named the processors, while U.S. export-control concerns are highlighted because remote access to chips in third countries may create a policy loophole.
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Using AI to mitigate the growing environmental threat of data centers
MIT News Office has published a profile of Christina Delimitrou’s research on using AI and machine learning to make data centers and cloud systems more efficient and less power-intensive.
- Delimitrou, a newly tenured associate professor at MIT and member of CSAIL, focuses on machine learning, cloud computing, and data center efficiency to reduce wasted power and improve reliability.
- The article describes prior and current research tools such as Seer and Ditto, and notes her earlier work at Stanford University and Cornell University; it is a profile/commentary piece rather than a new project announcement.
- Contact information provided: abbya@mit.edu and 617-253-2709.
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Arista Networks to Announce Q3 2026 Financial Results on Tuesday, November 3, 2026
Arista Networks has announced the timing of its Q3 2026 earnings release and scheduled participation in several upcoming investor conferences.
- Earnings release: Q3 2026 results for the quarter ended September 30, 2026 will be released after U.S. markets close on November 3, 2026; a conference call will follow at 1:30 PM PT / 4:30 PM ET with dial-in details and a webcast on the investor relations site.
- Investor events: Arista said it will participate in the 30th Annual UBS Global AI and Tech Conference on December 1, 2026 (12:15 PM–12:45 PM ET), Wells Fargo’s 10th Annual TMT Summit on December 7, 2026 (time TBD), and the Barclays 24th Annual Global Technology Conference on December 10, 2026 (1:30 PM–2:00 PM ET).
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Micro data center company rolls out stackable data center for edge and AI
Zella DC has announced Zella Stack, a new modular data center platform for edge computing deployments.
- The platform uses a stackable architecture with 12RU modules; up to four modules provide 48RU of hardware capacity, and the top-end Zella Stack 48 includes a base module plus three IT blocks.
- Zella says the system supports air or liquid cooling, can reach up to 124kW, weighs about 185 kilograms/408 pounds, stands 2.48 meters tall, and was unveiled at Yotta 2026 in Las Vegas; an outdoor version is planned for 2H 2027.
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Beyond the Megawatt: Why Data Center Site Selection Is Now a Three-Front Battle
The article provides commentary and analysis on a new regulatory environment for data center development in the United States, not a single new company announcement.
- State regulators and governors in California, Texas, New York, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alabama, Pennsylvania, and Oregon are tightening oversight of grid costs, water reporting, and land-use approvals for data centers.
- The piece cites specific rules and actions including California’s AB 1577, AB 2383, and SB 887, Massachusetts Executive Order 658, New York’s Host Community Investment Framework, and Texas permitting and water-use reporting actions.
- It also notes cost and reporting thresholds such as 25 MW in Massachusetts, $1 million per megawatt in New York’s framework, and an average 29% rate increase for some Oregon large energy users.
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Von Neumann’s party
Nature has published a science-fiction short story in which an unnamed narrator is repeatedly asked, “Were you at von Neumann’s party?”
- The story is a fictional narrative set in Princeton and references John von Neumann, Institute for Advanced Studies, IBM, and a hall of servers in a data centre-like room.
- It is not a real-world announcement or deal; the piece is literary commentary/fiction, with no commitments, prices, or project details disclosed.