21st Century Infrastructure

First-Ever Mass Timber Meetup Brings Bay Area Leaders to Berkeley Wood Lab image

First-Ever Mass Timber Meetup Brings Bay Area Leaders to Berkeley Wood Lab

Last week, the Bay Area Council and UC Berkeley co-hosted the first-ever Bay Area Mass Timber Meetup at the Berkeley Wood Lab. Lab directors Paul M...
Growing California’s Technology Dominance While Balancing Energy and Climate Objectives image

Growing California’s Technology Dominance While Balancing Energy and Climate Objectives

When it comes to growing California’s leadership and competitiveness in AI, data centers and advanced manufacturing, how these industries and tec...
Time to Rock: Council Endorses Brisbane Data Center and Advanced Manufacturing Project image

Time to Rock: Council Endorses Brisbane Data Center and Advanced Manufacturing Project

The Bay Area Council recently endorsed the Guadalupe Quarry Redevelopment Project in Brisbane – and we’re thrilled to support Orchard Partnersâ...
California Needs to Expand Clean-Energy Data Centers — or We Risk Getting Left Behind image

California Needs to Expand Clean-Energy Data Centers — or We Risk Getting Left Behind

The Bay Area Council is working closely with our AI industry members and many other organizations to expand and accelerate California’s fast-grow...
Misguided Data Center Regulations Would Pull the Plug on California Digital Competitiveness, Hurt Businesses and Consumers image

Misguided Data Center Regulations Would Pull the Plug on California Digital Competitiveness, Hurt Businesses and Consumers

Legislation (Bauer Kahan, AB 222) that would require the collection and reporting of energy being used by artificial intelligence (AI) models and t...
Getting the Goods on Goods Movement image

Getting the Goods on Goods Movement

Assemblymember Mia Bonta this week joined the Bay Area Council’s Goods Movement Subcommittee for an engaging and informative discussion on the fu...
Governor’s Office Briefs Council on Infrastructure Package image

Governor’s Office Briefs Council on Infrastructure Package

With Governor Newsom’s CEQA streamlining proposal for clean energy, water, and semiconductor infrastructure projects facing 11th hour negoti...
NCC Rallies Support for Governor’s Infrastructure Proposal image

NCC Rallies Support for Governor’s Infrastructure Proposal

The New California Coalition – co-lead by Bay Area Council CEO Jim Wunderman and CEO of LA BizFed Tracy Hernandez – this week (June 2) released...
Council Applauds Gov. Newsom’s Unveiling of Bold New Infrastructure Package for California’s Future image

Council Applauds Gov. Newsom’s Unveiling of Bold New Infrastructure Package for California’s Future

As an expected $180 billion from the federal infrastructure and climate bills is poised to head to California, the state must seize this opportunit...
Forum Emphasizes Importance of Broadband Infrastructure image

Forum Emphasizes Importance of Broadband Infrastructure

The Bay Area Council Economic Institute added to a busy week in Sacramento as it hosted aroundtable discussion on broadband infrastructure in Calif...
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