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Recent California data center news

• Aug 6, 2026

  From Firefly To Honeybee: How India’s Pixxel Is Widening What Satellites Can See

  Pixxel has announced its next-generation Honeybee satellite platform and is expanding its commercial satellite constellation while continuing government and enterprise work globally.

  • Pixxel said Honeybee will raise spectral bands to around 250 and extend coverage into short-wave infrared (SWIR); the first demonstrator, Honeybee Zero, is slated for launch later this year.
  • The company said it has six Firefly satellites in orbit, serves customers across multiple regions, and is working on India’s National Earth Observation Constellation; it also referenced prior selection under NASA’s $476 Mn Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition Program and current partnerships including Sarvam AI for an orbital data centre.
• Aug 6, 2026

  The 50 States of Power Decarbonization: States Pull Back on Clean Energy Commitments While Governors Step In to Address Large Load Additions in Q2 2026

  The NC Clean Energy Technology Center has released its Q2 2026 edition of the 50 States of Power Decarbonization, summarizing state and utility actions on clean energy, emissions targets, large load customers, and resource planning.

  • The report says all 50 states and Puerto Rico took 564 actions in Q2 2026, with about 650 introduced bills also under consideration; planned capacity additions in recent IRPs totaled 77,810 MW gas, 72,193 MW solar, 43,017 MW storage, 12,615 MW nuclear, and 12,327 MW wind.
  • It highlights policy trends including pullbacks on clean energy policies, governor actions on large load customers, and requirements that large load customers contribute to programs such as low-income support and energy efficiency; top developments included New York delaying an emissions target, Georgia Power‘s BYONCE program, and Pennsylvania adopting a statewide model large load tariff.
• Aug 5, 2026

  Patented: Solenic Medical’s Implant-Infection Device and 120 More Inventions Across North Texas

  Solenic Medical has announced progress toward a pivotal clinical trial for its SOLA-2 alternating magnetic field system after receiving FDA Investigational Device Exemption approval.

  • The company said the FDA approved its Investigational Device Exemption on June 23, 2026, clearing it to begin a pivotal trial for patients with periprosthetic joint infections and infected knee replacements.
  • The trial is expected to enroll patients in the second half of 2026 at national orthopedic and academic centers; Solenic estimates global healthcare costs from these infections at more than $6 billion a year, potentially rising above $15 billion by 2035.
• Aug 4, 2026

  Arista Networks, Inc. Reports Second Quarter 2026 Financial Results

  Arista Networks has announced its second-quarter 2026 financial results and introduced new 1.6 Tbps AI fabric platforms, including liquid-cooled options.

  • The company reported Q2 2026 revenue of $3.036 billion, its first $3 billion quarter, with non-GAAP diluted EPS of $1.02 and GAAP diluted EPS of $0.95.
  • Arista said it introduced the 7060XE7 Series for AI fabrics, with up to 100 Tbps of system bandwidth and about 60% lower interconnect power consumption versus traditional pluggable optics; it also gave Q3 2026 guidance of about $3.3 billion revenue and $1.06-$1.08 non-GAAP EPS.
  • The release also notes Arista was named to the 2026 Fortune 500 and recognized in the 2026 Gartner Magic Quadrant; it includes a webinar with Anthropic and Palo Alto Networks and investor call details for August 4, 2026 at 1:30 PM Pacific Time.
• Aug 4, 2026

  Hogan Lovells Cadwalader expands technology and life sciences capabilities with addition of David Emanuelson to antitrust team in San Francisco

  Hogan Lovells Cadwalader has announced the addition of David Emanuelson as a partner in its Antitrust and Competition practice in San Francisco.

  • Emanuelson joined from Arnold & Porter and will advise on merger analysis, private antitrust litigation, government investigations, and antitrust compliance.
  • The firm said he has experience with semiconductor, AI, datacenters and cloud computing, autonomous driving, healthcare technology, and biotechnology issues; no deal value or pricing was disclosed.
• Aug 4, 2026

  Data Center Jobs: Engineering, Construction, Commissioning, Sales, Field Service and Facility Tech Jobs Available in Major Data Center Hotspots

  Data Center Frontier, in partnership with Pkaza, has posted a roundup of current data center job opportunities on the Data Center Frontier jobs board.

  • The article highlights multiple roles including CFD Engineer, Electrical Commissioning Agent, Critical Power Sales Associate, Architect, Electrical Project Manager, Commissioning Project Manager, Owner’s Rep - Construction Cost Controls Director, Project Executive, Data Center Construction Project Manager, Mechanical Commissioning Engineer, Mechanical Controls Engineer, Critical Facilities Systems Manager, Principal Electrical Engineer, and Director of Project Deliverables.
  • Listings span remote and on-site roles across the United States, with repeated references to enterprise, colocation, hyperscale, and mission-critical data center facilities; no compensation or investment figures are provided.
• Aug 3, 2026

  AMD unveils AI GPU to challenge Nvidia’s Rubin

  AMD has announced the Instinct MI455X, its new flagship AI accelerator, at its recent Advancing AI 2026 event, alongside the Helios rack-scale AI platform.

  • The MI455X is the flagship of AMD’s Instinct MI400 family and is designed for large-scale AI training and inference; AMD says it delivers 320 billion transistors, 432GB HBM4, up to 40 PFLOPS FP4, and 23.3 TB/s of memory bandwidth.
  • The chip uses CDNA 5, is manufactured with TSMC 2nm and 3nm process technologies, and is intended to improve tensor processing, cache bandwidth, memory movement, and execution efficiency for LLM and agentic AI workloads; shipping begins in Q3 2026, with volume ramping through Q4 2026 and H1 2027.
• Aug 3, 2026

  Philip N Jefferson: Navigating economic shocks - a monetary policymaker's perspective

  Philip N. Jefferson delivered a speech on how the Federal Reserve responds to economic shocks, with emphasis on energy prices and AI.

  • He said the FOMC kept the federal funds rate at 3-1/2 to 3-3/4 percent at its June meeting and that policy remains positioned to support the labor market while inflation declines toward 2 percent.
  • He highlighted two current developments: the Middle East conflict as an energy supply shock, and AI as a shock affecting both supply and demand, with firms investing heavily in data centers, advanced computing equipment, and AI capabilities.
  • The speech was delivered at Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford University, in Stanford, California, on 16 July 2026; it is commentary and policy analysis rather than a new program announcement.
• Aug 2, 2026

  Sarvam’s AI Arsenal

  Sarvam AI is expanding from Indian-language models into a full-stack enterprise AI platform spanning infrastructure, models, and applications.

  • The startup unveiled Sarvam Epoch and said it now wants to provide everything Indian enterprises need to build, deploy and scale AI, including foundation models, infrastructure, coding copilots, voice agents, document intelligence and workplace applications.
  • Sarvam said Sarvam Inference runs open-weight models on India-hosted infrastructure; it is building a trillion-parameter model, scaling compute to 10,000 accelerators, and has opened a San Francisco office while appointing Devendra Singh Chaplot.
  • The article also reports prior funding and valuation context: Sarvam entered India’s unicorn club after raising $234 Mn in a $300 Mn Series B at a $1.5 Bn valuation; the company’s total funding is listed as $275.0 Mn+.
• Jul 31, 2026

  Lisa D Cook: Economic outlook

  Lisa D. Cook, a Member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, delivered a speech on the U.S. economic outlook and said inflation risks have shifted higher than employment risks.

  • Cook said the AI buildout is adding to inflation pressure, with companies having announced more than $1.5 trillion in data center plans and with spending raising prices for chips, high-tech equipment, software, and utilities.
  • She said the Fed kept rates steady, noted June 2026 inflation at 3.7% versus the 2% target, and stated she is prepared to act if disinflation does not appear soon.