Polls show voters are turning sharply against data centers and several bills to regulate the facilities are advancing in the California Legislature. Utilities and tech companies, meanwhile, are spending millions lobbying state officials.

The Steyer brothers' relationship makes some advocates optimistic. Lawmakers and advocates for tech regulations said they expect Jim Steyer not to be shy about his policy views with his brother, candidate Tom Steyer.

Reports filed with the California Secretary of State show just 21 individuals contributed more than $1.6 million to Matt Mahan for Governor 2026 in the first two days of his campaign.

The California Back to Basics Committee, operating for the San Jose mayor but independent of his campaign, spent $1.5 million to produce and buy the spot endorsing Matt Mahan during TV’s most watched telecast this Sunday.

Leaders from the AFL-CIO, representing 2.3 million nationwide members, say Gov. Gavin Newsom needs to focus on the technology’s harms to win support for her presidential run.

Most plans to regulate data centers died in the state’s Legislature this year, despite a nationwide backlash. Two surviving bills aim to promote disclosure of energy and water use.

Judge Amit P. Mehta said Google must hand over some of its search data to rivals, falling short of the sweeping changes proposed by the government to rein in the power of Silicon Valley.

A secretive appropriations process in the California Legislature killed or reined in three bills regulating the use of pricing algorithms, although some AI regulation survived the legislative axe, including a bill that would outlaw pricing software algorithm use in contracts.

In a major shift, Google, OpenAI, Meta and venture capitalists — many of whom had once forsworn involvement in war — have embraced the military industrial complex.

Goodbye to the age of consumer websites and mobile apps, as some observers say the impact of AI shifts innovation’s epicenter away from San Jose.

China has used U.S. components to produce supercomputers believed to support nuclear explosive simulation and military simulation activities. The penalties for such illegal sales by Cadence were reduced by more than $70 million because of some coooperation with federal investigators.

State officials say the Elon Musk-led company doesn't have permits to operate autonomous vehicles in California.

Silicon Valley has always been known for causing disruption. But now, it’s getting disrupted itself.

California’s political watchdog staff accused former Assemblymember Evan Low of concealing payments to actor Alec Baldwin for appearing at a 2020 fundraiser for Low, plus multiple other campaign finance violations.

A spate of new bills in California and other states would protect consumers from electricity rate hikes that subsidize data centers.

The results of a five-year state probe laid out dozens of potential violations by Evan Low involving a non-profit tech foundation for which he raised a half-million dollars. The investigation began after CalMatters published an investigation into the relationship between Low, the foundation and its donors.