{ "version": 1, "url": "https://aicv.news/data-centers", "updated": "2026-09-23", "description": "A dated data-center policy log for the Coachella Valley and Inland Empire, with source links, verification status and the next decision to watch.", "coverage": "Growing log; not a complete inventory. Status is as of each entry’s checked date.", "entries": [ { "id": "2026-09-14-riverside-committee", "date": "2026-09-14", "checked": "2026-09-15", "jurisdiction": "City of Riverside, California", "coverage_places": [ "Riverside" ], "title": "riverside committee recommends a pause, gazette reports", "status": "Reported recommendation — adoption not verified", "summary": "The Raincross Gazette reports that the Land Use Committee recommended a 90-day data-center moratorium for full City Council consideration. This entry does not establish an enacted ban or a pause already in effect.", "verification": "The official agenda confirms a September 14 discussion of data-center restrictions. We have not independently verified the committee outcome or the proposed duration against minutes or a recording. Council adoption, an effective date and final ordinance text remain unverified. This concerns the city, not Riverside County.", "next": "Check the official committee record and a full City Council agenda for the recommendation. No next decision date has been verified.", "sources": [ { "label": "The Raincross Gazette — September 14 report", "url": "https://www.raincrossgazette.com/riverside-committee-backs-temporary-data-center-moratorium/", "role": "Secondary reporting: committee recommendation and proposed duration" }, { "label": "City of Riverside — agenda file 26-2992", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=47D757F7-873C-4CD8-9E3C-750CCD98792D&ID=8199375&Options=&Search=", "role": "Primary record: agenda subject only; does not confirm the outcome" } ], "url": "https://aicv.news/data-centers#2026-09-14-riverside-committee" }, { "id": "2026-08-26-coachella-ordinance-1231", "date": "2026-08-26", "checked": "2026-09-23", "jurisdiction": "City of Coachella, California", "coverage_places": [ "Coachella" ], "title": "coachella adopts a citywide data-center ban, effective september 25", "status": "Adopted — takes effect September 25, 2026", "summary": "The City Council adopted Ordinance No. 1231 on second reading, prohibiting data-center uses citywide. Reporting gives the effective date as 30 days after the August 26 vote, which is September 25. Accessory server rooms, data-processing equipment and information technology facilities are exempt. It follows Urgency Ordinance No. 1229 of June 4, a 45-day moratorium adopted alongside termination of the development agreement with Stronghold Power Systems for the Coachella Valley Technology Campus, proposed on more than 240 acres near Avenue 52 and Fillmore Street.", "verification": "The adoption comes from a record of the council action, not from the municipal code; AICV News has not read the adopted ordinance text. The chapter number the ordinance becomes is NOT carried: one record gives it as Chapter 17.92, but that record states on its own page that its text is AI generated, and no reported source confirms it. The vote count on August 26 is not established — the unanimous vote on record is the August 12 first reading. The effective date is reported, not confirmed against the code. Whether any data-center application is pending on the effective date is unknown; neither the city nor Stronghold Power Systems has been asked. A $54 million revenue-loss figure attributed to the developer circulates in search results, appears in none of the archived sources, and is not carried here.", "next": "Confirm the ordinance text, the chapter number (one AI-generated record gives 17.92; unconfirmed) and the effective date against the Coachella Municipal Code once the new chapter is published, and establish whether any application was pending on September 25. Indio, Desert Hot Springs and Palm Springs have each acted or are weighing action and are not yet logged.", "sources": [ { "label": "Citizen Portal — record of the August 26 adoption (AI-generated aggregator, so labelled on its own page)", "url": "https://citizenportal.ai/articles/10023649/California/Riverside-County/Coachella-City/Coachella-council-adopts-citywide-ban-on-datacenter-uses", "role": "Machine-written summary of the council action. Corroborates the second-reading adoption, which KESQ also reports; its uncorroborated chapter number is not carried" }, { "label": "KESQ — Coachella City Council passes permanent ban on data centers", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/25/coachella-city-council-passes-permanent-ban-on-data-centers/", "role": "Secondary reporting: definition, exemptions, stated reasons, 30-day effective rule" }, { "label": "KESQ — first reading passes, second vote set for Aug. 26", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/12/coachella-passes-first-reading-of-permanent-ban-on-data-centers-second-vote-on-aug-26/", "role": "Secondary reporting: unanimous first reading, August 12" }, { "label": "KESQ — moratorium approved and developer agreement terminated", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/06/04/coachella-moves-closer-to-permanent-data-center-ban-as-it-approves-moratorium-and-terminates-agreement-with-developer/", "role": "Secondary reporting: Ordinance 1229, the June 4 sequence, the terminated agreement" } ], "url": "https://aicv.news/data-centers#2026-08-26-coachella-ordinance-1231" } ], "related_coverage_note": "Automatically linked published reporting and opinion. These are not verified current-policy statuses; consult the dated pieces.", "related_coverage": [ { "url": "https://aicv.news/intelligence/perris-data-center-ban-vote", "type": "intelligence", "title": "Perris advances a citywide data-center ban", "description": "The Riverside Record reports a unanimous October 13 vote; the city agenda calls for an ordinance's first reading, and the fairgrounds remain separate.", "published": "2026-10-15", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Inland Empire", "tags": [ "data-centers", "perris" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Perris Becomes Second City To Ban Data Centers In Riverside County", "publisher": "The Riverside Record / Alicia Ramirez", "url": "https://riversiderecord.org/perris-citywide-data-center-ban/", "published": "2026-10-14" }, { "title": "City Council agenda October 13, item 11.A", "publisher": "City of Perris", "url": "https://granicus_production_attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/perris/7dd42aaf5ff4264dfaff41948659a2a20.html" } ], "what_changed": "Perris councilmembers voted unanimously on October 13 to prohibit data centers, [Alicia Ramirez reported October 14 in The Riverside Record](https://riversiderecord.org/perris-citywide-data-center-ban/). The [city agenda's item 11.A](https://granicus_production_attachments.s3.amazonaws.com/perris/7dd42aaf5ff4264dfaff41948659a2a20.html) called for a resolution and an ordinance's first reading; we have not established final ordinance adoption or an effective date. The Record reports that the city has no jurisdiction over the state-owned fairgrounds, where a separate proposal includes a potential data center. The council vote does not establish that proposal's cancellation.", "sourcing": "mixed", "topic": "data-centers", "not_confirmed": [ "The vote and fairgrounds jurisdiction are attributed to The Riverside Record. We read the city agenda, but not the meeting recording or approved minutes. The agenda establishes a proposed first reading, not the outcome or effective date.", "The outlet describes a ban, but final ordinance adoption and when it takes effect have not been independently established here." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/intelligence/riverside-two-data-center-options", "type": "intelligence", "title": "riverside committee sends two data-center options to council", "description": "The Riverside Record reports two paths for council review: a temporary moratorium or a resolution affirming staff's position on existing code.", "published": "2026-10-14", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Inland Empire", "tags": [ "data-centers", "riverside" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Riverside Committee Sends 2 Data Center Policy Proposals To Council For Review", "publisher": "The Riverside Record / Daniel Eduardo Hernandez", "url": "https://riversiderecord.org/riverside-committee-data-center-policy-proposals/", "published": "2026-10-13" }, { "title": "Legislative file 26-3428", "publisher": "City of Riverside", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=24B6D64F-E1C2-4FC6-B4C4-014EF814D3B3&ID=8283700" } ], "what_changed": "Riverside's Land Use Committee directed staff on October 13 to bring two data-center policy options to the full council, [Daniel Eduardo Hernandez reports in The Riverside Record](https://riversiderecord.org/riverside-committee-data-center-policy-proposals/). One would impose a temporary 45-day moratorium on approvals. If the council declines that option, the other would affirm staff's position that current code already prohibits data centers. The Record says the moratorium option is set for council consideration November 10. These are recommendations for council consideration, not a council-adopted moratorium.", "sourcing": "mixed", "topic": "data-centers", "not_confirmed": [ "The committee direction and November 10 date rest on The Riverside Record's reporting. The city file we read confirms the discussion item but gives no outcome; we have not read official minutes or a recording.", "The existing-code interpretation is staff's position as reported by the outlet, not a legal finding independently established here." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/news/riverside-data-center-prohibition-memo", "type": "news", "title": "Riverside weighs a data-center ban", "description": "A Sept. 14 memo proposes an ordinance prohibiting data centers in Riverside; the Gazette reports the Land Use Committee backed a 90-day pause instead.", "published": "2026-10-06", "updated": "2026-10-14", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Inland Empire", "coverage_places": [ "Riverside" ], "tags": [ "data-centers", "riverside", "land-use" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Prohibition of Data Centers as a Land Use in the City of Riverside (Land Use Committee memorandum, September 14, 2026)", "publisher": "City of Riverside", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=F&ID=15825845&GUID=C03EB391-CD5A-4B26-A736-8FBAB4284E25", "published": "2026-09-14" }, { "title": "City of Riverside legislative file 26-2992: discuss amendments to prohibit data centers as an allowable land use", "publisher": "City of Riverside", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/LegislationDetail.aspx?GUID=47D757F7-873C-4CD8-9E3C-750CCD98792D&ID=8199375&Options=&Search=" }, { "title": "City Council agenda, October 6, 2026 (revised)", "publisher": "City of Riverside", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/View.ashx?M=A&ID=1448769&GUID=5A359EA7-31CF-4B36-9D15-EEA1A84F7543", "published": "2026-10-02" }, { "title": "City of Riverside meeting calendar (Planning Commission entry for October 8, 2026)", "publisher": "City of Riverside", "url": "https://riversideca.legistar.com/Calendar.aspx" }, { "title": "Riverside Committee Backs Temporary Data Center Moratorium", "publisher": "The Raincross Gazette", "url": "https://www.raincrossgazette.com/riverside-committee-backs-temporary-data-center-moratorium/", "published": "2026-09-14", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260921210655/https://www.raincrossgazette.com/riverside-committee-backs-temporary-data-center-moratorium/" } ], "key_points": [ "Councilmember Philip Falcone's September 14 memo proposes explicitly prohibiting data centers in Riverside's land-use code.", "The Land Use Committee unanimously recommended a 90-day pause on new data-center proposals, according to the Raincross Gazette. The memo itself does not mention a pause.", "The memo's proposed definition would cover facilities where more than 50 percent of primary operations are data-center functions. The committee chair questioned whether that threshold could leave a loophole, the Gazette reported.", "City records checked on October 6 did not show a council date or council action on either a pause or a permanent ordinance. Committee minutes and a recording were not reviewed." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/news/indio-data-center-moratorium-extension", "type": "news", "title": "Indio extends data-center pause through October 2027", "description": "Indio council's October 7 vote extended its data-center moratorium through October 16, 2027, while permanent restrictions remain in development.", "published": "2026-10-05", "updated": "2026-10-26", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Indio", "tags": [ "data-centers", "indio", "land-use" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Staff report and proposed Ordinance No. 1838-Ext2 for October 7 council hearing", "publisher": "City of Indio", "url": "https://indio.civicweb.net/document/198792/Data%20Center%20Moratorium%20Extension.pdf?handle=87E71EC04B32493BA7E5BE11D8AE37BA", "published": "2026-10-02" }, { "title": "Indio Extends Data Center Pause Another Year As City Works Toward Permanent Ban", "publisher": "NBC Palm Springs / Harrison Bluto", "url": "https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/local-and-community/2026/10/08/indio-extends-data-center-pause-another-year-as-city-works-toward-permanent-ban", "published": "2026-10-08" }, { "title": "Indio Extends Data Center Moratorium For Up To 1 Year", "publisher": "The Riverside Record / Alicia Ramirez", "url": "https://riversiderecord.org/indio-extends-data-center-moratorium-for-up-to-1-year/", "published": "2026-10-08" }, { "title": "Indio City Council extends data center moratorium through 2027", "publisher": "KESQ / City News Service (syndicated)", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/10/07/indio-city-council-extends-data-center-moratorium-through-2027/", "published": "2026-10-07" }, { "title": "California Government Code section 65858", "publisher": "California Legislative Information", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=GOV§ionNum=65858" } ], "key_points": [ "NBC Palm Springs and The Riverside Record reported that Indio's council unanimously extended its data-center moratorium on October 7, through October 16, 2027.", "The pause bars city processing or approval of applications for new data centers, building conversions or expansions; existing exemptions remain.", "The city is working on permanent restrictions, but the October 7 vote was for an extension, not adoption of a permanent ban." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/intelligence/california-ab-2469-data-center-disclosures", "type": "intelligence", "title": "California signs a law requiring water and workforce disclosures before data-center approvals", "description": "AB 2469 bars data-center approvals until applicants file water and workforce disclosures and pay for water upgrades the supplier says the project needs.", "published": "2026-10-05", "author": "Sat Singh", "tags": [ "california", "data-centers", "water-use" ], "sources": [ { "title": "AB-2469 Data centers: water use disclosures (Chapter 436, chaptered version of 09/21/26)", "publisher": "California Legislative Information", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2469", "published": "2026-09-21" }, { "title": "California Constitution, Article IV, Section 8 (when a statute takes effect)", "publisher": "California Legislative Information", "url": "https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=CONS§ionNum=SEC.%208.&article=IV" } ], "what_changed": "The governor signed Assembly Bill 2469 on September 21 (Chapter 436), adding Government Code section 65964.7. A city or county may not approve a permit or other entitlement to build a data center, or to expand one so that its maximum peak water use rises, until the applicant has provided a water supply assessment, projected water use and efficiency measures, and workforce disclosures: composition, job classifications, employment duration, wage ranges and benefits, and the shares of workers living in the county and state. From January 1, 2028 applicants must also file a water scarcity plan with measures for each drought level, abnormally dry to exceptional. The applicant must pay the full cost of any water conveyance, treatment, storage or distribution upgrades the water supplier says the project needs. Meeting the conditions does not oblige approval. The law applies to charter cities.", "sourcing": "primary", "topic": "civic", "not_confirmed": [ "The bill prints no general effective date. Under the Constitution's rule for a statute enacted at a regular session (a January 1 after a 90-day period), it would take effect January 1, 2027. That date is our reading of that rule, not a date in the bill; only the January 1, 2028 water scarcity plan date is stated in the bill.", "The bill text does not define 'data center' or set a size threshold, so the text alone does not say which facilities are covered.", "We read the chaptered bill and the constitutional rule, not the Water Code provisions the bill cites for the water supply assessment, and we have not checked how any city or county will apply the law." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/field-notes/palm-springs-extension-hearing", "type": "field-notes", "title": "palm springs to consider a longer data-center pause", "description": "Palm Springs' council voted unanimously on September 30 to extend its data-center pause by 22 months and 15 days, KESQ reports.", "published": "2026-09-29", "updated": "2026-10-01", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Palm Springs", "coverage_places": [ "Palm Springs" ], "tags": [ "data-centers" ], "corrections": [ { "date": "2026-09-29", "summary": "This note first said, in the line under its headline, that Palm Springs' definition of a data center excludes servers secondary to a business's main use. The exclusion in the staff report is narrower: equipment secondary to the principal use of the same site, such as servers serving a hospital or an office located there. The corrected wording is now in the body; the line under the headline carries the news." } ], "sources": [ { "publisher": "City of Palm Springs", "url": "https://palmsprings.primegov.com/Portal/Meeting?meetingTemplateId=4104", "published": "2026-09-23" } ], "not_confirmed": [ "We did not read Ordinance No. 2134, the ordinance being extended; what it prohibits is taken from the agenda item's title, and its definition from the staff report's description of it." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/news/coachella-data-center-ban-takes-effect", "type": "news", "title": "Coachella bans data centers", "description": "Coachella's citywide data-center ban takes effect September 25. Supporting server rooms are exempt only under specific conditions, KESQ reports.", "published": "2026-09-23", "updated": "2026-10-14", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Coachella", "coverage_places": [ "Coachella" ], "tags": [ "data-centers", "coachella", "land-use" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Coachella City Council passes permanent ban on data centers", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/25/coachella-city-council-passes-permanent-ban-on-data-centers/", "published": "2026-08-25", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260902101139/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/25/coachella-city-council-passes-permanent-ban-on-data-centers/" }, { "title": "Coachella passes first reading of permanent ban on data centers, second vote on Aug. 26", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/12/coachella-passes-first-reading-of-permanent-ban-on-data-centers-second-vote-on-aug-26/", "published": "2026-08-12", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260915193815/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/12/coachella-passes-first-reading-of-permanent-ban-on-data-centers-second-vote-on-aug-26/" }, { "title": "Coachella moves closer to permanent data center ban as it approves moratorium and terminates agreement with developer", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/06/04/coachella-moves-closer-to-permanent-data-center-ban-as-it-approves-moratorium-and-terminates-agreement-with-developer/", "published": "2026-06-04", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260812184427/https://kesq.com/news/2026/06/04/coachella-moves-closer-to-permanent-data-center-ban-as-it-approves-moratorium-and-terminates-agreement-with-developer/" }, { "title": "Coachella council adopts citywide ban on data-center uses", "publisher": "Citizen Portal", "url": "https://citizenportal.ai/articles/10023649/California/Riverside-County/Coachella-City/Coachella-council-adopts-citywide-ban-on-datacenter-uses", "published": "2026-08-26", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260923165609/https://citizenportal.ai/articles/10023649/California/Riverside-County/Coachella-City/Coachella-council-adopts-citywide-ban-on-datacenter-uses" }, { "title": "Palm Springs City Council approves temporary data center moratorium", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/", "published": "2026-08-26", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260911174953/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/" } ], "corrections": [ { "date": "2026-09-23", "summary": "This story first described the ordinance's exemption as unconditional, saying accessory server rooms, data-processing equipment and information technology facilities 'are exempt'. The exemption reported by KESQ is conditional: it applies where those uses are incidental and subordinate to, and specifically associated with, an otherwise permitted principal use. A standalone facility built around a server room is not exempt on that language. The ordinance takes effect on September 25 and the distinction bears on who is covered, so it is corrected here rather than adjusted quietly. The same passage now also carries the range of uses the definition reaches — server farms, AI training or processing, cloud computing, image processing and email servicing among them — which the first version omitted. Separately, the definition of a data center was presented in quotation marks as though quoted from the ordinance; it is KESQ's description of it, and this story has not read the adopted text. It is now attributed." } ], "key_points": [ "Coachella's Ordinance No. 1231 prohibits data-center uses citywide and takes effect September 25, thirty days after its August 26 adoption.", "KESQ reports that the definition covers uses including server farms, AI training or processing, cloud computing and email servicing.", "The exemption for accessory server rooms and related equipment applies only when they are incidental and subordinate to, and specifically associated with, an otherwise permitted principal use.", "The ban follows the council's June decision to terminate its agreement for a proposed technology campus of more than 240 acres. That agreement ended before the permanent ban was adopted." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/views/what-i-told-kesq-about-regulating-ai", "type": "views", "title": "Who writes our AI rules?", "description": "Four valley cities acted on data centers this summer without waiting for Sacramento. The bills that will matter more are being drafted by the industry.", "published": "2026-09-22", "updated": "2026-10-15", "author": "Sat Singh", "tags": [ "regulation", "policy", "data-centers", "coachella-valley", "aicv-news" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Should AI be regulated? Local students, professor weigh in as debate grows in Washington", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3 / Raymond Kalra", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/09/21/should-ai-be-regulated-local-students-professor-weigh-in-as-debate-grows-in-washington/", "published": "2026-09-21", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922053446/https://kesq.com/news/2026/09/21/should-ai-be-regulated-local-students-professor-weigh-in-as-debate-grows-in-washington/" }, { "title": "Governor Newsom signs new law to protect workers, require disclosures on AI-generated advertising", "publisher": "Office of the Governor of California", "url": "https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/16/governor-newsom-signs-new-law-to-protect-workers-require-disclosures-on-ai-generated-advertising/", "published": "2026-09-16", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260918174226/https://www.gov.ca.gov/2026/09/16/governor-newsom-signs-new-law-to-protect-workers-require-disclosures-on-ai-generated-advertising/" }, { "title": "How Google is drafting AI chatbot laws around the country", "publisher": "NPR", "url": "https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5968878/ai-chatbots-safety-regulation-google", "published": "2026-09-18", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922002712/https://www.npr.org/2026/09/18/nx-s1-5968878/ai-chatbots-safety-regulation-google" }, { "title": "Coachella City Council passes permanent ban on data centers", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/25/coachella-city-council-passes-permanent-ban-on-data-centers/", "published": "2026-08-25", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260902101139/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/25/coachella-city-council-passes-permanent-ban-on-data-centers/" }, { "title": "Palm Springs City Council approves temporary data center moratorium", "publisher": "KESQ News Channel 3", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/", "published": "2026-08-26", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260911174953/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/" }, { "title": "State of the Coachella Valley Visitor Economy — Agent Visibility and Readiness, Q2 2026", "publisher": "AI Coachella Valley", "url": "https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/state-cv-visitor-economy-agent-readiness-q2-2026/", "published": "2026-06-05", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922224907/https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/state-cv-visitor-economy-agent-readiness-q2-2026/" }, { "title": "Agent-Mapped: Hospitality & Retreat Venues in the Coachella Valley, Q3 2026", "publisher": "AI Coachella Valley", "url": "https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/agent-mapped-hospitality-retreat-venues-coachella-valley/", "published": "2026-07-07", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922224927/https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/agent-mapped-hospitality-retreat-venues-coachella-valley/" }, { "title": "Measured Twice: The First Re-Measurement of the Coachella Valley's Agent Layer", "publisher": "AI Coachella Valley", "url": "https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/measured-twice-coachella-valley-agent-layer-remeasurement/", "published": "2026-07-17", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260922225007/https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/measured-twice-coachella-valley-agent-layer-remeasurement/" } ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/views/open-data-center-agreements-coachella-valley", "type": "views", "title": "Read the deal before the vote", "description": "Mark Cuban asked towns to publish data center deals. 38 are in one library, none from California yet. Four valley cities have paused or banned data centers.", "published": "2026-09-11", "updated": "2026-10-15", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Coachella Valley", "coverage_places": [ "Coachella", "Indio", "Palm Springs" ], "tags": [ "data-centers", "community-benefits", "palm-springs", "coachella", "mark-cuban" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Open Community Benefits Agreement for Data Centers", "publisher": "Policy Frameworks / Shaper Collective", "url": "https://datacenters.policyframeworks.org/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260911173530/https://datacenters.policyframeworks.org/" }, { "title": "About the Open Community Benefits Agreement Project", "publisher": "Policy Frameworks / Shaper Collective", "url": "https://datacenters.policyframeworks.org/about.html", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260911173552/https://datacenters.policyframeworks.org/about.html" }, { "title": "Framework and release history", "publisher": "Policy Frameworks / Shaper Collective", 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"publisher": "NBC Palm Springs", "url": "https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2026/05/12/coachella-residents-pack-town-hall-over-proposed-ai-data-center-raising-alarms-about-water-power-costs-and-transparency", "published": "2026-05-12", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260514043743/https://www.nbcpalmsprings.com/2026/05/12/coachella-residents-pack-town-hall-over-proposed-ai-data-center-raising-alarms-about-water-power-costs-and-transparency" } ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/news/coachella-isnt-alone-on-data-centers", "type": "news", "title": "Data centers: what does a community get?", "description": "From Missouri to Adelanto, communities are asking the same question about data centers: who benefits, who pays, and what is actually enforceable.", "published": "2026-09-10", "updated": "2026-10-14", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Coachella Valley", "coverage_places": [ "Coachella", "Indio", "Palm Springs", "Desert Hot Springs", "Adelanto" ], "tags": [ "data-centers", "adelanto", "coachella", "incentives" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Independence voters recall councilman tied to data center tax vote", "publisher": "KCTV5", "url": "https://www.kctv5.com/2026/09/02/independence-voters-recall-councilman-tied-data-center-tax-vote/", "published": "2026-09-01", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910190125/https://www.kctv5.com/2026/09/02/independence-voters-recall-councilman-tied-data-center-tax-vote/" }, { "title": "Independence gives billions in tax breaks for a massive data center, despite outcry from residents", "publisher": "KCUR", "url": "https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2026-03-03/independence-gives-billions-in-tax-breaks-for-a-massive-data-center-despite-outcry-from-residents", "published": "2026-03-03", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910190153/https://www.kcur.org/politics-elections-and-government/2026-03-03/independence-gives-billions-in-tax-breaks-for-a-massive-data-center-despite-outcry-from-residents" }, { "title": "Trump defends data centers, saying people who oppose them will end up 'backwards and poor'", "publisher": "WALB / Associated Press", "url": "https://www.walb.com/2026/08/31/trump-defends-data-centers-saying-people-who-oppose-them-will-end-up-backwards-poor/", "published": "2026-08-31", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/20260910190250/https://www.walb.com/2026/08/31/trump-defends-data-centers-saying-people-who-oppose-them-will-end-up-backwards-poor/" }, { "title": "Subsidizing Servers: How States Are Competing to Attract Data Centers", "publisher": "National Conference of State Legislatures", "url": "https://www.ncsl.org/fiscal/subsidizing-servers-how-states-are-competing-to-attract-data-centers", "published": "2026-04-01", "archive_url": 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"https://www.loudoun.gov/6408/Data-Centers-The-Loudoun-Story", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.loudoun.gov/6408/Data-Centers-The-Loudoun-Story" }, { "title": "Tax Revenues & County Budget", "publisher": "Loudoun County, Virginia", "url": "https://www.loudoun.gov/6409/Tax-Revenues-County-Budget", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.loudoun.gov/6409/Tax-Revenues-County-Budget" }, { "title": "In race to attract data centers, states forfeit hundreds of millions of dollars in tax revenue to tech companies", "publisher": "CNBC (via NBC Chicago)", "url": "https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/money-report/in-race-to-attract-data-centers-states-forfeit-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-in-tax-revenue-to-tech-companies/3772449/", "published": "2025-06-20", "archive_url": 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"https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://kesq.com/news/2026/07/15/indio-and-coachella-continue-to-make-progress-on-data-center-bans/" }, { "title": "Desert Hot Springs extends data center moratorium to 2 years", "publisher": "The Riverside Record", "url": "https://riversiderecord.org/desert-hot-springs-data-center-moratorium-extended/", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://riversiderecord.org/desert-hot-springs-data-center-moratorium-extended/" }, { "title": "Palm Springs City Council approves temporary data center moratorium", "publisher": "KESQ", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/", "published": "2026-08-26", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://kesq.com/news/2026/08/26/palm-springs-city-council-approves-temporary-data-center-moratorium/" }, { "title": "City of Adelanto to hold public hearing on zoning update that could open door to data centers", "publisher": "Victor Valley News", "url": "https://www.vvng.com/city-of-adelanto-to-hold-public-hearing-on-zoning-update-that-could-open-door-to-data-centers/", "published": "2026-08-06", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.vvng.com/city-of-adelanto-to-hold-public-hearing-on-zoning-update-that-could-open-door-to-data-centers/" }, { "title": "Adelanto council weighs removing planning chair after heated public hearing", "publisher": "Victorville Daily Press (via Yahoo)", "url": "https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/adelanto-council-weighs-removing-planning-230058308.html", "published": "2026-08-28", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/adelanto-council-weighs-removing-planning-230058308.html" }, { "title": "High Desert residents sound the alarm on potential data centers in Adelanto", "publisher": "Knock LA", "url": "https://knock-la.com/potential-data-centers-in-adelanto/", "published": "2026-08-27", "archive_url": "https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://knock-la.com/potential-data-centers-in-adelanto/" } ], "key_points": [ "Independence, Missouri, voters recalled a councilmember who supported a major data-center incentive package. The recall passed with 68.05 percent of the vote, KCTV5 reported.", "Virginia's state auditors found its sales-tax exemption returned about 48 cents in new state tax revenue for each dollar abated. Loudoun County, meanwhile, reports substantial local property-tax revenue from data centers.", "Construction employment and permanent operating jobs differ sharply. Virginia's auditors found a typical 250,000-square-foot facility employs roughly 50 full-time workers, about half of them contractors.", "As of September 10, Coachella had adopted a permanent ban, three other valley cities had approved temporary pauses, and Adelanto's proposed zoning amendment remained paused under its mayor's August 26 request." ] }, { "url": "https://aicv.news/views/data-center-debate-coachella-valley", "type": "views", "title": "Set the terms before the data center", "description": "Coachella ended its Stronghold agreement on June 4. Imperial County paused approvals on June 16. Communities need enforceable terms before the next vote.", "published": "2026-06-26", "updated": "2026-10-15", "author": "Sat Singh", "city": "Coachella Valley", "coverage_places": [ "Coachella" ], "tags": [ "data-centers" ], "sources": [ { "title": "Coachella approves moratorium and terminates developer agreement", "publisher": "KESQ", "url": "https://kesq.com/news/2026/06/04/coachella-moves-closer-to-permanent-data-center-ban-as-it-approves-moratorium-and-terminates-agreement-with-developer/" }, { "title": "Imperial County approves data-center moratorium", "publisher": "inewsource", "url": "https://inewsource.org/2026/06/16/imperial-county-approves-data-center-moratorium/" }, { "title": "Data center developer sues over access to Colorado River water", "publisher": "KPBS", "url": "https://www.kpbs.org/podcasts/kpbs-midday-edition/data-center-developer-sues-over-access-to-colorado-river-water" }, { "title": "The Server Farm Next Door", "publisher": "AI Coachella Valley / aicoachellavalley.com", "url": "https://aicoachellavalley.com/reports/data-centers-ai-infrastructure-coachella-valley/" } ], "corrections": [ { "date": "2026-10-15", "summary": "Corrected the developer’s name from Stronghold Digital to Stronghold Power Systems and added Coachella’s June 4 termination of its development agreement. Imperial County’s moratorium vote was June 16, not June 17; it was distinct from April’s lot-merger approval. A reported 260 million gallons annually averages about 712,000 gallons daily, not 750,000. Removed claims not substantiated in this check, corrected the FAQ and added the author’s relationship to the cited AICV report. This remains a June account, not current project or litigation status." } ] } ] }