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UC San Diego is pushing ahead with plans to build dorms that will collectively hold 3,310 students to deal with the school’s runaway growth and a critical housing shortage.

The expansion will increase the university’s housing capacity to 22,260 — a figure larger than the number of people living in such communities as Solana Beach and Scripps Ranch.

The campus got a lift from the University of California Board of Regents, which this week gave the school permission to move forward with two huge projects, Pepper Canyon West and Thurgood Marshall College Undergraduate Student Housing.

Pepper Canyon will house 1,310 transfer and upper-diversion undergraduate students near the Blue Line trolley station that recently opened on campus, a few minutes walk from Geisel Library.

 The $350 million project also will feature retail space.

Connecticut enacted SB 1292, requiring AI data center owners and operators to submit quarterly reports to the Commissioner of Energy and Environmental Protection on energy and water consumption. The law authorizes the commissioner to adopt regulations concerning water and energy efficiency standards for data centers. [Validation 2026-06-21: status -> 'died' per https://fastdemocracy.com/bill-search/ct/2025/bills/CTB00032345/.]

North Dakota's HB 1579, originally introduced to create a state siting process for large electricity users (50+ MW), was significantly amended — the siting process was stripped and replaced with a mandate for an interim legislative study on the impact of large energy consumers on the state's electrical grid. Passed House 89-3, Senate 46-0. Signed April 28, 2025. Signed into law on April 29, 2025.