A new wave of smart home devices, including set-and-forget thermostats, accessible smart plugs, and water leak sensors, can make aging in place easier, according to Senior Tech Tutor Marin. The articl…
Walnut Creek city leadership signaled support for electrifying its fleet and expanding public EV charging, with a draft Electric Vehicle Strategic Plan projecting $5.6 to $6.7 million in additional co…
San Jose, California, will hold its first public forum on August 19 to gather resident input on new regulations for data centers, responding to 11 pending projects totaling 1,630 megawatts of electric…
Beau G., founder of California startup Satyress, says his 7-foot-tall chainsaw-wielding 'centaur' robot named Threehalves is designed to make forestry and line clearing safer through teleoperation, de…
Nvidia is leasing a 302,800-square-foot building at 5853 Rue Ferrari in San Jose's Santa Teresa district for possible AI and advanced tech work, according to sources and city filings. The facility, ow…
Prologis plans to build a 516,000-square-foot data center on a 15-acre site in San Jose, California, with 99 megawatts of electricity capacity. The project, located near a PG&E substation, aims to sup…
Prologis plans to convert a 302,800-square-foot industrial building in San Jose into a data center and tech hub with 49 megawatts of power, potentially attracting companies like Nvidia. The project in…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich is leading a campaign against AI datacenters, which she compares to the Hinkley groundwater contamination case. She has received thousands of emails from concern…
Faith in Action East Bay executive director Todd Benson urges California Senator Jerry McNerney to pass AB 2465, which would end government subsidies for companies profiting from immigration detention…
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) issued new rules for large-load interconnection, aiming to reduce grid stress and improve affordability for AI factories and advanced manufacturing. The…
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins intensified the Trump administration's campaign to prevent PG&E from removing two century-old Eel River dams, announcing negotiations with PG&E and a Southern Cali…
General Motors announced at a San Francisco event that its GM Energy products now support vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, partnering with PG&E in California and DTE Energy in Michigan to help balanc…
PG&E has doubled the capacity of its Santa Teresa Substation in South San Jose to 80 megawatts, adding 40 megawatts to meet a request from data center operator Equinix. The utility plans to further ex…
Environmental activist Erin Brockovich launched a crowdsourced map tracking AI data center locations, which has already collected 2,716 public reports nationwide. The platform highlights how these fac…