For more than 85 years, the Cow Palace has hosted everything from Republican National Conventions to techno shows.<\/p>\n
Now, the historic venue could take on a very different role: serving as a home for artificial intelligence infrastructure.<\/p>\n
Global Stack, a Santa Ana-based company, has proposed building a small data center at the Cow Palace, along with a multi-level parking garage and a helicopter landing pad.<\/p>\n
The company says the facility would provide AI computing power for local customers and be designed to keep operating during power outages or disasters.<\/p>\n
The proposal is part of a broader plan targeting 33 fairgrounds across California, including eight in the Bay Area.<\/p>\n
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, Cow Palace CEO Allison Keaney says the fairgrounds are still evaluating the proposal and have not made any decisions.<\/p>\n
Keaney says fairgrounds serve many roles beyond hosting events \u2014 they are community gathering spaces, food distribution sites and training grounds for first responders.<\/p>\n
But she also acknowledged that fairgrounds across California face ongoing financial challenges, and finding new sources of revenue may require creative approaches.<\/p>\n
The proposal has faced pushback in some communities. The Calistoga Fairgrounds rejected a similar plan after residents raised concerns about potential noise and pollution impacts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For more than 85 years, the Cow Palace has hosted everything from Republican National Conventions to techno shows.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[101,103,102,104,106,105],"class_list":["post-396055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}