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Recent California data center news

• Jul 30, 2026

  Virginia Report Finds Groundwater Running Dry for New Data Centers

  The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has released a report concluding that major new groundwater withdrawals are not supportable under current permitting standards in Virginia’s Coastal Plain.

  • The 144-page report was ordered by the General Assembly and modeled a hypothetical industrial facility withdrawing 3 million gallons per day; all modeled withdrawals failed DEQ’s technical permitting evaluation.
  • DEQ found the highest sustainable withdrawal in the eastern Northern Neck was 360,000 gallons per day, while areas near the I-95 corridor were estimated at less than 30,000 gallons per day; the report says groundwater recovery has peaked and future declines are likely within 5 to 10 years if conditions continue.
• Jul 30, 2026

  Sarvam Ropes In Mistral AI Founding Team Member Devendra Chaplot As Advisor

  Sarvam has announced the appointment of Devendra Singh Chaplot as an advisor and the opening of a new San Francisco office. - Devendra Singh Chaplot was named advisor at Sarvam’s first developer conference, Epoch 2026, as the company pushes to build frontier AI models in India.

  • Sarvam said it plans a foundational model with more than one trillion parameters; Chaplot said a 3 Tn parameter model could be trained in India using 10,000 Blackwell GPUs over four to six months.
  • The company also announced a San Francisco office as part of its expansion.
  • The article says Chaplot was a founding team member at Mistral AI, worked at Thinking Machines Lab, and previously led pre-training at xAI.
• Jul 30, 2026

  Sarvam To Build Trillion-Parameter AI Model, Launches India-Hosted Inference Service

  Sarvam has announced plans to build a trillion-plus parameter frontier AI model in India and launched Sarvam Inference, a domestically hosted inference platform.

  • Pratyush Kumar said Sarvam is building a trillion-plus parameter model “right here in India,” from scratch, for coding, cybersecurity, simulation, science and more.
  • The company launched Sarvam Inference, which currently supports Sarvam 105B, GLM 5.2 and Gemma 4, and said it aims to keep inference workloads within India for data residency needs; Sarvam also announced a San Francisco office and named Devendra Singh Chaplot as an advisor.
• Jul 29, 2026

  The Truth About Data Centers: What’s Really Behind Your Electricity Bill

  DataBank has published an explanatory article arguing that data centers are not the main driver of rising electricity bills and highlighting grid, fuel, and infrastructure factors.

  • The article says data centers do not set electricity prices; regulated utilities charge state-approved commercial or industrial rates, while deregulated markets use negotiated rates like other large businesses.
  • It cites natural gas prices rising 56% in 2025, PG&E projecting data center growth could lower household bills by up to 2%, and DataBank saying its own PUE improved from 1.81 in 2020 to 1.5 by end-2025.
  • It also notes Texas rates rose about 3.8% in 2025, California rates rose 2.1%, and DataBank says power infrastructure construction starts rose 21.2% in Q1 2026 and are projected to finish the year more than 30% above 2025 levels.
• Jul 28, 2026

  Climate Change Solutions - July 28, 2026

  Environmental and Energy Study Institute has published a Climate Change Solutions newsletter highlighting climate data access, data center health impacts, nuclear energy, and several congressional bills.

  • The newsletter spotlights a new online platform, Climate.us, and an interview with Rebecca Lindsey, who discusses filling the gap left by the now-defunct Climate.gov.
  • It also summarizes recent legislative activity, including the House passage of the Next-Generation Geothermal Research and Development Act (H.R. 8790) and Senate movement on the Water Resources Development Act of 2026 (S.4949) and the Wildfire Emissions Prevention Act of 2026 (S.5045).
  • A separate article in the newsletter discusses data center health impacts, noting emissions from on-site diesel generators and from natural gas and coal power plants used to power data centers.
• 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

  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.