data centers
Nvidia-Backed AI Materials Startup Orbital Leases 12,000 SQFT at 1919 Peralta Street in West Oakland
Orbital Materials, the London- and San Francisco-based AI startup that rebranded this year as Orbital Industries after raising a $50 million Series B,...
Home Sales Push Santa Clara County Roll to $760.1B as Commercial Appeals Hit $153.6B
Santa Clara County's taxable property base climbed to a record $760.1 billion for 2026-27, a 4.7 percent gain powered by home sales that...
Peak Energy Raises $108MM to Scale 183,000 SQFT Sodium-Ion Battery Factory in Sacramento
Peak Energy, a Burlingame-based maker of grid-scale sodium-ion batteries, has raised $108 million to ramp up production at the Sacramento factory it leased...
San Jose Unveils Strict Data Center Rules With $50,000-Per-Megawatt Fee and Potable-Water Cooling Ban
San Jose has rolled out draft rules for data centers and other facilities drawing at least 20 megawatts that would outlaw potable-water cooling,...
The Registry Ranks: We Ranked 14 Bay Area Industrial Markets for Investors. Fremont Is the Only S.
Bay Area industrial is finally moving, with Silicon Valley vacancy down to 4.6% and East Bay absorption turning positive, but the recovery is...
Wells Fargo Sees Higher Rate Floor Squeezing Bay Area Housing as AI Buildout Powers Data Centers
Wells Fargo's latest economic outlook argues that a structurally higher floor under long-term interest rates will keep pressure on Northern California housing and...
UCLA Warns Bay Area Hyperscalers’ Data-Center Debt Carries Recession Risk
A September 2026 UCLA Economic Letter warns that the fast-growing debt financing the AI data-center boom, much of it carried by Bay Area...
San Francisco Building Operations Drive $12.7BN Economic Engine at Nation’s Second-Highest Cost Per Foot
A new economic-impact study from BOMA International quantifies the Bay Area's building-operations economy, finding that San Francisco runs the costliest commercial space in...
Silicon Valley Data Centers Sit Dark Until 2028 as U.S. Buildout Nears $15.1T
Nearly 100 megawatts of finished Silicon Valley data center capacity cannot be energized until Silicon Valley Power completes a $450 million system upgrade...
California Falls to Third in Battery Storage as Siting Fights Reroute Bay Area Projects
California installed 3.6 gigawatt-hours of battery storage in the second quarter and finished behind Arizona and Texas in the largest quarter the national...
Hines Puts San Jose Among Top U.S. Manufacturing Markets, Spotlights Fremont-Newark Corridor
Hines Research scored roughly 1,500 industrial submarkets nationwide and found seven in San Jose that clear its bar for durable manufacturing demand, making...
California Strikes Data Center Energy Deal, Shifting Bay Area Grid Costs Onto Operators
California lawmakers finalized a two-bill compromise Friday ordering regulators to write dedicated electricity rates for data centers, a framework that lands hardest in...
