data centers
LACERA Lands $200MM Slot in Energy Capital Partners’ $8.1 Billion Power Fund, Adds $75MM Whitman Peterson Co-Investment
The Los Angeles County Employees Retirement Association squeezed a $200 million commitment into Energy Capital Partners' oversubscribed sixth flagship fund just as it...
Texas Corners the AI Data Center Boom While California’s 2,287 MW Pipeline Trails the Nation
A new national accounting of data-center capacity shows California with 53 operating facilities but only a slender post-2026 pipeline, leaving Southern California's fast-growing...
Southern California’s Building Operations Power a $53.6BN Economy Supporting 334,000 Jobs, BOMA Study Finds
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International sizes Southern California's building-operations economy, finding that Greater Los Angeles ranks among the nation's largest markets...
UCLA Researchers Warn AI Data-Center Debt Could Shake the Broader Economy
In their September 2026 Economic Letter, UCLA Anderson Forecast and Ziman Center researchers warn that the heavily leveraged financing behind the national AI...
Wells Fargo Flags Warehouse Softness and Higher Rates as Inland Empire Risks, With Data Centers Advancing
Wells Fargo's September economic outlook singles out soft warehousing and retail demand alongside a higher floor under interest rates as the chief risks...
Battery Developers Chase Southern California Industrial Infill as Record Storage Quarter Sharpens Siting Fights
A record 20.2 gigawatt-hour national quarter for battery storage is landing on Southern California as a land story, with developers clearing standing industrial...
Southern California Sidelined in Data Center Boom as CBRE Reports Record 1.4% Vacancy
Even as a CBRE webinar detailed record-low vacancy and an unprecedented scramble for computing capacity across the country's primary data center markets, Southern...
San Diego Outscores Los Angeles as Hines Maps the $1 Trillion Manufacturing Buildout
A Hines Research report that scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide gave San Diego five top-tier locations to Los Angeles' four, and the...
Imperial County Reverses California’s Largest Data Center as Water Fight Heads to Court
Two months after approving a nearly 1 million square foot hyperscale campus, Imperial County reversed course with a moratorium, drawing a lawsuit from...
California Data Center Energy Deal Lands as Southern California Cities Move to Ban the Facilities
A two-bill compromise finalized in Sacramento on Friday would hand California regulators new power over data center electricity rates, arriving as a wave...
Southern California Trails Data Center Boom as Capacity Flows to Arizona and Texas
Southern California ranks among the smallest data center markets in the western United States at roughly 355 megawatts, trailing neighboring Phoenix and Las...
Southern California’s 5 GW Data Center Wave Meets Record Power Rates and a Ballot-Box Ban
While PG&E openly courts AI data centers in the north, Southern California Edison is quietly holding roughly 5 gigawatts of data center load...
