data center

Southern California has an unlikely AI mecca: the very industrial Vernon
December 30, 2025
Five miles south of downtown Los Angeles, a single industrial block in Vernon is drawing as much electricity as a small town.Inside a three-story, 242,000-square-foot building known as LAX01,...
Qualcomm to take on Nvidia with its own AI chips
October 27, 2025
Qualcomm on Monday announced the release of a new series of artificial intelligence chips to compete with the market leader Nvidia, as the race to cash in on the...
California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use
October 14, 2025
Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use.New data centers have been rapidly proliferating in California and other...
Nvidia to invest $100 billion in OpenAI to build data centers
September 23, 2025
Nvidia plans to invest $100 billion in OpenAI, giving the ChatGPT maker a huge war chest to build data centers with the chip maker’s chips.OpenAI will gain access to...
Southern California’s hottest commercial real estate market is for tenants that aren’t human
September 27, 2024
Where Wilshire Boulevard begins in downtown Los Angeles, thousands of miles of undersea fiber-optic cables disappear into an ordinary-looking office tower.One Wilshire is the mother of all data centers...