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",[70,98,99],{},"Fresno State"," and the ",[70,102,103],{},"California State University"," system anchor a workforce-readiness push, while local ",[70,106,107],{},"Fresno Unified School District"," debates around responsible use have made the city a recurring reference point in California's K-12 AI conversation. The city's economic base in agriculture, healthcare, and public services means most AI adoption stories here are about applied uses rather than model development — a different posture than coastal tech hubs but arguably more consequential for the people living here.",[66,110,111],{},"Use the articles below to follow how AI is showing up in Fresno-area institutions and businesses.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":113},[114],{"id":92,"depth":11,"text":93},"Fresno County","Fresno is the largest city in California's Central Valley and the regional center for AI adoption across agriculture, healthcare, higher education, and small business. Coverage on this page tracks how AI is being applied — and contested — in and around the city of Fresno and Fresno County.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Ffresno",{"title":87,"description":10},"cities\u002Ffresno","fresno","gOL2xk8y9t9OV6PPxP02OjYhZFHC_Cg-VGijh_V93dI",{"id":124,"title":125,"body":126,"county":146,"description":10,"extension":13,"intro":147,"meta":148,"navigation":21,"path":149,"seo":150,"stem":151,"tag":152,"__hash__":153},"cities\u002Fcities\u002Fmerced.md","Merced",{"type":7,"value":127,"toc":143},[128,132],[61,129,131],{"id":130},"ai-in-merced","AI in Merced",[66,133,134,135,138,139,142],{},"Merced is a research-heavy node in the Central Valley AI ecosystem. 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Coverage below follows Modesto-area AI announcements and the wider Stanislaus County context.",{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":171},[172],{"id":161,"depth":11,"text":162},"Stanislaus County","Modesto and Stanislaus County sit between the Bay Area and the southern Valley, and their AI story reflects that bridging role — from agriculture and food processing to the **California State University Stanislaus** community to small businesses adapting to AI-driven changes in marketing, hiring, and operations.",{},"\u002Fcities\u002Fmodesto",{"title":156,"description":10},"cities\u002Fmodesto","modesto","l75Dc40MX8wTb4lD088Yx9we4ypuDwmcvE-uEdqqREc",{"id":182,"title":183,"body":184,"county":200,"description":10,"extension":13,"intro":201,"meta":202,"navigation":21,"path":203,"seo":204,"stem":205,"tag":206,"__hash__":207},"cities\u002Fcities\u002Fstockton.md","Stockton",{"type":7,"value":185,"toc":197},[186,190],[61,187,189],{"id":188},"ai-in-stockton","AI in Stockton",[66,191,192,193,196],{},"Stockton's economic base in logistics, healthcare, and higher education gives the city a different AI profile than the southern Valley. 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That package, the Energy Department said Thursday, is slated to support a new 1.8 gigawatt AI data center complex at its Paducah, Kentucky cleanup site.",[66,270,271],{},"Fresno’s Henry Perea, a California High-Speed Rail board member, called data centers \"going to be a big issue\" as the agency discussed private revenue ideas last month. It puts a local frame on a federal plan that’s pairing data centers with their own power to move fast.",[66,273,274],{},"Central Valley agencies are hearing versions of the same pitch, from long-term land leases at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County to a 99‑megawatt proposal in Inyokern now in front of state energy regulators.",[61,276,278],{"id":277},"what-doe-announced","What DOE announced",[66,280,281],{},"The department picked Brookfield Asset Management to develop the Paducah campus and said Florida-based NextEra Energy will handle the on‑site power plant. Construction is targeted to finish in 2031, with excess electricity sold to the grid, according to the AP. Not cheap.",[66,283,284],{},"The Paducah site once enriched uranium for weapons and power reactors. Cleanup is ongoing, and federal officials say redevelopment helps fund that work while courting private investment.",[61,286,288],{"id":287},"where-this-meets-the-valley","Where this meets the Valley",[66,290,291],{},"Kern County sits on a short list of places where large data centers could land quickly if land control and interconnections line up. The Air Force says seven sites at Edwards are available for 50‑year leases, four on the Kern side, near transmission corridors and fiber rights‑of‑way. None are in populated areas.",[66,293,294],{},"Inyokern’s separate proposal, filed with the California Energy Commission this spring, has drawn a stack of public comments about groundwater, diesel backup generation, noise, and traffic. The docket shows hundreds of pages already, a sign the review will not be a rubber stamp here.",[66,296,297],{},"The flag rope outside Kern County’s admin building clacked in the noon wind.",[61,299,301],{"id":300},"power-and-water-questions-local-boards-will-ask","Power and water questions local boards will ask",[66,303,304],{},"Paducah’s model pairs a private data center with its own gas‑fired plant and big batteries, which avoids years in a grid interconnection queue. That approach is appealing to developers, but it moves the power and emissions debate directly into the host community. California boards have already started to parse it in public.",[66,306,307],{},"At a June meeting, the High‑Speed Rail board discussed whether to let a private partner lease corridor land and sell excess power, with data centers one option in the mix. \"We need to be ready to respond to it,\" Perea said. Later, he added he wants a full public briefing before any deal that leans on data centers. \"I don’t necessarily have a problem with data centers,\" he said, \"but I think we owe the public a very strong presentation of what a data center is and isn’t.\"",[66,309,310],{},[311,312,313,314,316,317,322],"em",{},"Central Valley AI is produced by the ",[70,315,239],{}," team and developed by ",[318,319,37],"a",{"href":38,"rel":320},[321],"nofollow",", a regional firm that builds, deploys, and integrates AI solutions for businesses across California's Central Valley.",[324,325],"hr",{},[61,327,329],{"id":328},"source","Source",[66,331,332],{},[318,333,334],{"href":334,"rel":335},"https:\u002F\u002Fwww.yourcentralvalley.com\u002Fnews\u002Fu-s-world\u002Fap-federal-government-to-turn-a-kentucky-uranium-plant-into-an-ai-data-center-and-gas-power-complex\u002F",[321],{"title":10,"searchDepth":11,"depth":11,"links":337},[338,339,340,341,342],{"id":248,"depth":11,"text":249},{"id":277,"depth":11,"text":278},{"id":287,"depth":11,"text":288},{"id":300,"depth":11,"text":301},{"id":328,"depth":11,"text":329},"2026-07-31","DOE picked Brookfield to redevelop the Paducah uranium plant into a $100B AI campus with on-site gas and batteries. Central Valley officials are weighing similar pitches.",{},"\u002Fnews\u002Ffeds-plan-1-8-gw-ai-data-center-2-gw-gas-at-kentucky-cleanup-site","---\nauthor: CVAI Newsdesk\ndate: '2026-07-31'\ndateModified: '2026-07-31'\ndescription: DOE picked Brookfield to redevelop the Paducah uranium plant into a $100B\n  AI campus with on-site gas and batteries. Central Valley officials are weighing\n  similar pitches.\ntags:\n- data centers\n- energy\n- central valley\ntitle: Feds plan 1.8 GW AI data center, 2 GW gas at Kentucky cleanup site\n---\n\n# Feds plan 1.8 GW AI data center, 2 GW gas at Kentucky cleanup site\n\n## Key Takeaways\n\n1. DOE selected Brookfield to redevelop its Paducah site into a $100B AI data center campus.\n2. NextEra will build 2 GW of gas generation and 2.6 GW of batteries to support 1.8 GW of computing load.\n3. Edwards AFB has seven long-term lease parcels available for data centers, four in Kern County.\n4. A proposed AI data center in Inyokern is under California Energy Commission review, drawing local comments.\n\nTwo gigawatts of gas, plus 2.6 in batteries. That package, the Energy Department said Thursday, is slated to support a new 1.8 gigawatt AI data center complex at its Paducah, Kentucky cleanup site.\n\nFresno’s Henry Perea, a California High-Speed Rail board member, called data centers \"going to be a big issue\" as the agency discussed private revenue ideas last month. It puts a local frame on a federal plan that’s pairing data centers with their own power to move fast.\n\nCentral Valley agencies are hearing versions of the same pitch, from long-term land leases at Edwards Air Force Base in Kern County to a 99‑megawatt proposal in Inyokern now in front of state energy regulators.\n\n## What DOE announced\n\nThe department picked Brookfield Asset Management to develop the Paducah campus and said Florida-based NextEra Energy will handle the on‑site power plant. Construction is targeted to finish in 2031, with excess electricity sold to the grid, according to the AP. Not cheap.\n\nThe Paducah site once enriched uranium for weapons and power reactors. Cleanup is ongoing, and federal officials say redevelopment helps fund that work while courting private investment.\n\n## Where this meets the Valley\n\nKern County sits on a short list of places where large data centers could land quickly if land control and interconnections line up. The Air Force says seven sites at Edwards are available for 50‑year leases, four on the Kern side, near transmission corridors and fiber rights‑of‑way. None are in populated areas.\n\nInyokern’s separate proposal, filed with the California Energy Commission this spring, has drawn a stack of public comments about groundwater, diesel backup generation, noise, and traffic. The docket shows hundreds of pages already, a sign the review will not be a rubber stamp here.\n\nThe flag rope outside Kern County’s admin building clacked in the noon wind.\n\n## Power and water questions local boards will ask\n\nPaducah’s model pairs a private data center with its own gas‑fired plant and big batteries, which avoids years in a grid interconnection queue. That approach is appealing to developers, but it moves the power and emissions debate directly into the host community. California boards have already started to parse it in public.\n\nAt a June meeting, the High‑Speed Rail board discussed whether to let a private partner lease corridor land and sell excess power, with data centers one option in the mix. \"We need to be ready to respond to it,\" Perea said. Later, he added he wants a full public briefing before any deal that leans on data centers. \"I don’t necessarily have a problem with data centers,\" he said, \"but I think we owe the public a very strong presentation of what a data center is and isn’t.\"\n\n*Central Valley AI is produced by the **CVAI Newsdesk** team and developed by [Kaweah Tech](https:\u002F\u002Fkaweah.tech), a regional firm that builds, deploys, and integrates AI solutions for businesses across California's Central Valley.*\n\n---\n\n## Source\n\nhttps:\u002F\u002Fwww.yourcentralvalley.com\u002Fnews\u002Fu-s-world\u002Fap-federal-government-to-turn-a-kentucky-uranium-plant-into-an-ai-data-center-and-gas-power-complex\u002F\n",{"title":237,"description":344},{"loc":346},"news\u002Ffeds-plan-1-8-gw-ai-data-center-2-gw-gas-at-kentucky-cleanup-site",[352,353,354],"data centers","energy","central valley","ReoBJb03Zs-hxFYdwvd6BYcuUNz1FYe0oJC4kRyzktg",1785458528412]