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Recent California data center news

• Jul 28, 2026

  US Startup Raises $470 Million To Build Reactors For Military Bases

  Antares Nuclear has announced a $470m Series C funding round to build micro nuclear reactors for US military bases.

  • The round includes $370m in equity and $100m in debt and was led by Paradigm and Caffeinated Capital, with participation from Industrious Ventures, Point72 Ventures, and Shine Capital.
  • Antares said its Mark-0 microreactor achieved initial criticality at Idaho National Laboratory (INL) on 4 June under the DOE Reactor Pilot Program; the company is also a finalist in the Pentagon’s Advanced Nuclear Power for Installations program and targets first electricity next year, with deployments at US military installations in 2028.
• Jul 23, 2026

  AMD Fires Back at Nvidia with Helios AI System, Epyc CPUs

  AMD has announced its Helios rack-scale AI system and sixth-generation Epyc CPUs at its Advancing AI conference in San Francisco.

  • Helios is in full production, with shipments from hardware partners scheduled to begin by the end of Q3 2026; the system combines Epyc processors, Instinct MI455X GPUs, Pensando networking, and ROCm software.
  • AMD also launched the Epyc 9006 Series CPUs and ROCm.ai; the company said future products include Instinct MI500 in 2027, MI600 in 2028, and next-gen CPUs planned for 2028 and 2030.
• Jul 23, 2026

  Brookfield buys BESS developer Aypa Power from Blackstone  

  Brookfield Asset Management has announced an agreement to acquire battery storage developer-operator Aypa Power at an enterprise value of about US$7 billion. - The deal was agreed with funds managed by Blackstone Energy Transition Partners and is subject to regulatory approvals; Brookfield said it will acquire Aypa’s operational, under-construction and contracted BESS projects plus its development pipeline.

  • Brookfield said Aypa has a 6.5GW portfolio and a pipeline of more than 20GW; its operating and under-construction assets are 95% contracted under long-term agreements with an average remaining contract term of 17 years.
  • The article also notes prior financing and project activity at Aypa, including a US$320 million credit line in 2023, US$550 million in debt and tax equity financing, a US$1.5 billion credit facility in 2026, US$512 million financing for two Ontario projects, and a 1GWh Arizona project entering commercial operation.
  • In a separate M&A update, Nextpower completed its acquisition of Prevalon; Nextpower said the deal expands its platform into BESS, energy management software, power control technologies, and services supporting AI data centre infrastructure and other critical power applications.
• Jul 22, 2026 · Google

  Q2 2026 earnings call: Remarks from our CEO

  Alphabet has reported strong AI-driven growth across Search, YouTube, and Cloud, while also highlighting new model launches, platform adoption, and infrastructure advances.

  • Alphabet revenue grew 24% year-over-year; Search and Other revenue grew 17%, YouTube Ads grew 13%, and Cloud revenue grew 82%.
  • The company said Cloud backlog reached $514 billion, Gemini app has 950 million monthly active users, and more than 9 million developers build each month with its models.
  • Alphabet also said it launched Gemini 3.6 Flash, Gemini 3.5 Flash-Lite, and Gemini 3.5 Flash Cyber, while starting pre-training for Gemini 4; Isomorphic Labs raised over $2 billion.
• Jul 22, 2026

  Patented: Cardio Voyage Innovations’ Dual Heart Valve Device and 172 More Inventions Across North Texas

  Dallas Innovates reports that Dallas-Fort Worth ranked No. 8 in U.S. patent production for the week of June 23, 2026, with 173 patents granted.

  • 173 patents granted across the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington metro area; the region ranked No. 8 among 250 metros for the week of June 23, 2026.
  • The article is a news roundup/commentary on granted patents, not a first-time product or funding announcement; it highlights patents spanning medical devices, AI, transportation, energy, HVAC, networking, and manufacturing.
  • No contact emails or phone numbers are provided in the text.
  • The story references multiple local inventors and assignees, including Cardio Voyage Innovations, DFW International Airport Board, BNSF Railway, Texas Instruments, Toyota, Halliburton, and Lennox.
• Jul 22, 2026

  Lawsuit Tests Water Strategy Behind California’s Lithium Valley

  Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing has sued the Imperial Irrigation District after IID denied its request for Colorado River water for a planned 330 MW AI data center in Imperial County.

  • The company sought about 260 million gallons per year (roughly 750,000 gallons per day) to cool a proposed 950,000-square-foot campus on 160 acres of farmland it says will be retired from production.
  • IID rejected the request on May 1; the dispute is tied to Imperial County’s Lithium Valley Specific Plan and a new Water Supply Assessment that assumes industrial projects could be served by shifting water from retired farmland.
  • The assessment says current agricultural use in the planning area is about 149,000 acre-feet per year, while projected industrial demand would be 63,243 acre-feet per year after 20 years and 77,776 acre-feet per year after 30 years.
  • The county’s current plan assumes increasing water recycling by industrial facilities, from about 20% to 80% by 2055, and proposes a regional backbone conveyance system, 12 water storage facilities, and a special district.
• Jul 21, 2026

  “Just give me my damn data center”: Strip club owner-turned-developer faces pushback on SoCal desert project

  Sebastian Rucci is pushing forward a proposed 950,000-square-foot data center in California’s Imperial Valley, despite opposition and a county moratorium on data projects.

  • The project is described as a $10 billion data center that would use 330 megawatts of power and has received preliminary approvals.
  • The Imperial County Board of Supervisors imposed a 45-day freeze on data projects and later extended it to one year; the Imperial Irrigation District rejected Rucci’s plan to buy farmland and use its Colorado River water allocation for cooling.
  • Rucci said he has invested $5 million of his own money; the story also notes lawsuits he filed against officials, the utility, an activist, and a public television station, with several claims recently dismissed.
• Jul 21, 2026

  NVIDIA, Wistron Kick Off Start of AI Supercomputer Factory in Fort Worth

  NVIDIA and Wistron have announced the start of an AI supercomputer manufacturing facility at AllianceTexas in Fort Worth.

  • Groundbreaking event held for the facility at Hillwood’s AllianceTexas in Fort Worth; the plants will assemble and test NVIDIA AI systems and use the NVIDIA Omniverse DSX Blueprint and Physical AI technology.
  • Wistron said the two Fort Worth plants represent a $761 million investment and are expected to eventually employ 888 employees; the properties include Westport 14 and 35 Eagle, purchased last summer.
  • The article also references prior NVIDIA plans to produce up to $500 billion of AI infrastructure in the U.S. and notes related North Texas manufacturing projects by Coherent and Foxlink Group.
• Jul 21, 2026

  Time to Power: Sage Geosystems CEO Cindy Taff on Geothermal’s AI Infrastructure Moment

  Data Center Frontier published an interview-style article in which Cindy Taff, CEO of Sage Geosystems, argues that next-generation geothermal can help meet AI data center power demand.

  • Taff says the industry has shifted from focusing on low emissions to securing enough energy and that time to power is now the most important metric for AI data centers.
  • She says Sage’s hot dry rock geothermal approach could be built where needed, and that a 5 GW geothermal buildout would require about 500 wells annually, compared with roughly 30,000 wells per year drilled by the U.S. oil and gas industry.
  • The piece frames geothermal as a dispatchable, firm baseload resource and notes that AI campuses may increasingly rely on behind-the-meter generation, storage, and dedicated infrastructure.
• Jul 20, 2026

  Roundup: Pennington / Judge blocks media merger / BlackRock backs data center

  BlackRock is seeking to sell more than $12 billion in bonds to finance Meta’s AI-focused data center campus in El Paso, Texas.

  • Debt financing: BlackRock plans to issue more than $12 billion in bonds through a holding company that owns 80% of the project, while Meta owns 20%.
  • The El Paso data center is expected to open in 2028; the article says Meta has used a similar financing model for its Hyperion data center project in Louisiana.

  The piece also reports that LSU’s Pennington Biomedical Research Center received a five-year grant renewal, and that a federal judge temporarily blocked Paramount’s proposed merger with Warner Bros. Discovery.

  • Grant renewal: LSU’s center received a five-year, $5.66 million renewal of its Nutrition Obesity Research Center grant from the NIH institute NIDDK, extending support through 2031.
  • Merger pause: A federal judge blocked Paramount’s proposed $81 billion merger with Warner Bros. Discovery for at least 14 days; a hearing on a preliminary injunction is scheduled for Aug. 3.