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• October 8, 2026Palm Desert

  palm desert council to consider a citywide ai policy for city work

  PALM DESERT — Palm Desert's council takes up an AI policy for city work on Oct. 8 that sorts uses into three risk levels and would take effect the day it passes.

• October 6, 2026Inland Empire

  riverside memo proposes writing a data-center ban into city code; a committee backed a 90-day pause

  RIVERSIDE — 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.

• October 5, 2026Inland Empire

  riverside council creates a working group to draft a citywide AI strategy

  RIVERSIDE — Three Riverside councilmembers will spend 13 months on an AI strategy for city operations, the local economy and data-center demands, the city says.

• October 5, 2026Inland Empire

  csusb plans AI retraining for Inland Empire workers

  SAN BERNARDINO — CSUSB's planned worker cohort and AI training portal are part of a two-year research project backed by a university-reported $1.031 million award.

• October 5, 2026Indio

  indio council to consider extending its data-center moratorium to october 2027

  INDIO — Indio's data-center moratorium expires Oct. 16. The City Council's Oct. 7 agenda proposes extending it through Oct. 16, 2027.

• October 2, 2026Coachella Valley

  california will pay newsrooms to employ local reporters

  PALM DESERT — California's Community NEWS Act starts Jan. 1, 2027, but the first credits won't be paid until 2028. Riverside County has 2.3 local journalists per 100,000.

• September 23, 2026Coachella

  coachella's data-center ban takes effect friday

  COACHELLA — Ordinance 1231 prohibits data centers citywide, thirty days after the council adopted it on second reading. Accessory server rooms are exempt.

• September 14, 2026Palm Desert

  five teams, five submissions: palm desert joins a 48-city ai hackathon

  PALM DESERT — Palm Desert joined 47 other cities for AI Tinkerers' Agents, Everywhere hackathon on September 12: five teams formed, five projects submitted.

• September 10, 2026Coachella Valley

  coachella isn't alone on data centers

  RANCHO MIRAGE — From Missouri to Adelanto, communities are asking the same question about data centers: who benefits, who pays, and what is actually enforceable.