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Will the Stanford Stadium box office be open on event day?

Yes, the Stanford Stadium box office, located at Gate 2, will be open at 2 PM on the day of each show. The box office windows will be closed in the week leading up to the shows.

Where is Will Call located?

Fans picking up tickets at Will Call should visit the Stanford Stadium box office, located at Gate 2, after 2 PM on the day of each show.

ADA seating inside Stanford Stadium is located in row Y of the lower level and row V of select upper level sections (Sections 218-228, 206-208, and 238-240). There will also be an ADA platform on the floor for guests with floor tickets.

Ticket holders who require accessible seating accommodations should read below for instructions to receive a day of event exchange:

Fans with floor tickets who require accessible seating accommodations should arrive early and visit Gate 1B near the Stanford Stadium Ticket Office to relocate their ticket and one companion ticket to the ADA platform and enter the venue. From there, guests will be transported via golf cart down to the field and assisted by venue staff to the ADA platform. There will be a mix of folding chairs and wheelchair spaces on the platform.

Fans with reserved seat tickets in the stadium bowl should arive early, enter the venue through the gate closest to their parking lot, proceed to the concourse nearest their assigned seat location, and speak with a guest services representative to receive a new seating assignment in an accessible location.

Stanford University prides itself on offering alternatives to driving to campus. Below are the most commonly used transportation alternatives to reach Stanford Stadium. For more information on transportation alternatives, please visit Parking & Transportation Services: http://transportation.stanford.edu

The Rideshare Pickup/Drop Off Area is located at the Palo Alto Unified School District building across from Stanford University at the intersection of El Camino Real and Churchill Ave. The lot will be open for drop off beginning at 2 p.m. A pedestrian crossing is available at Churchill and El Camino Real.

Can I bring a bag into the venue?

All attendees are subject to Stanford Athletics’ Clear Bag Policy. This policy limits the size and types of bags that are permitted inside Stanford Stadium.

Approved bags include clear plastic, vinyl, or PVC bags that do not exceed 12” x 6” x 12” and small clutch bags or purses no larger than 4.5” x 6.5”. Click here to learn more about the Clear Bag Policy.

Is there somewhere I can leave my bag during the event?

Fans can leave their bags at designated Bag Check locations around the facility. Bag Check service is located at Sunken Diamond on the south end of Stanford Stadium and at the north end of the stadium near Gate 10. Bag Check opens at 4:30 p.m.

Is there a list of prohibited items?

Stanford wants all attendees to enjoy campus events in a safe and enjoyable environment. All guests are subject to search before being admitted into any athletic venue.

The information below is subject to change without notice.

The following items are PROHIBITED inside the Stanford athletic venues:

Can ticket-holders bring chairs? No chairs are allowed. Patrons may bring seat cushions into the venue, so long as they are smaller than 18".

Will there be food and beverages sold in the stadium? Food and beverages will be available for purchase throughout the Stadium. Concession stands will be located throughout the inner and upper concourses between sections 112-136, 212-214 and 230-236. Alcohol will be available for purchase throughout the stadium. Bar locations will be located throughout the entire inner and upper concourses, field level and under the archways behind sections 222-224.

Is water available? Stanford Stadium is equipped with several water stations. They are located throughout the venue on the outer, inner and upper concourses.

Can ticket-holders bring food and beverages from outside? Patrons may bring food into the Stadium so long as it fits within their approved bag. Open containers are not allowed inside the stadium. Sealed water bottles up to 20oz are permitted. All items will be subject to search prior to entry. Please note that all concessions are cashless and there are no ATMs inside Stanford Stadium

Can ticket-holders take photos and video? Yes. Cameras will be allowed so long as the lenses are less than 6".

Is camping in tents allowed on campus? Camping is not allowed on campus.

Is overnight parking allowed in Stanford parking lots? Overnight parking will not be allowed for the Coldplay concerts.

What if it rains? The concerts will take place, rain or shine.

When is the sound curfew? 10 p.m.

Do Stanford students get a discount? Stanford students do not receive a discount on Coldplay tickets. In November 2024, Stanford students were eligible to purchase $20 Infinity Tickets through a lottery system. Coldplay offered the reduced-priced tickets in an effort to increase accessibility to their concerts. A second student ticket lottery was announced on April 16. The lottery opened on Thursday at 8 a.m., PST, on April 17, 2025, and will close at 8 a.m., PST, on May 5, 2025. visit: https://bit.ly/4lyIHnL for complete details.

California pioneers artificial intelligence technologies, but can it power the many data centers AI requires? If not, the state could lose its dominant position in developing AI, according to a new Stanford University report.

California can maintain its AI lead by focusing on five key strategies, according to the readout of a recent meeting in Sacramento of experts from California utilities, technology companies, data center developers, investment firms, academia, and government. However, this will require great determination and quick actions throughout the state, said the experts.

U.S. electricity demand is rising on a scale last seen in the post-World War II industrial boom, primarily due to AI computing, electrification of transportation and buildings, and reshoring of manufacturing. By 2040, California peak power demand is forecast to increase by the amount of electricity needed to run 20 million homes, which is more than the number of homes in the state today. California’s task is to supply the new energy while continuing to decarbonize its electricity supply and making power in the state more affordable and reliable.

“The challenge is acute and urgent in the San Francisco Bay Area,” said Liang Min, managing director of Bits & Watts, the smart grid initiative of the Stanford Doerr School of Sustainability’s Precourt Institute for Energy. “PG&E’s data center pipeline has doubled just since February.”

“On the bright side, electricity growth means economic growth, so it can be a good problem to have – if we solve it,” added Min, co-organizer of the meeting and lead author of the readout report. The Precourt Institute hosted the meeting in June, which follows one the institute held in February on expanding the grid for U.S. electricity growth broadly.

Attendees pointed out that very lengthy permitting processes for new power plants and transmission lines, wildfire outages, and sluggish grid connections for data centers and energy storage facilities threaten the reliability of California’s grid – especially with load growth. Executives in the meeting, which was held under assurance that the 50 participants would not be quoted, agreed that the state could lose out on many good jobs building and operating the needed infrastructure, as well as significant tax income.

But that’s not all.

“Technology companies and AI talent will necessarily migrate to the states that effectively support the growth of data centers,” Ira Ehrenpreis, founder and managing partner of venture capital firm DBL Partners, said after the meeting.

“The states that align infrastructure, electricity, and policy with AI’s explosive growth will win,” said Ehrenpreis, who is co-chair of the Precourt Institute’s advisory council, and co-organizer of the Sacramento meeting with Min. “California should create the optimal regulatory and legislative environment to properly compete.”

Five key levers

Ten meeting participants summarized the meeting’s discussion into five recommendations based on extensive notes.

First, the state should create a one-stop permitting venue integrating local, state, and federal reviews. Most big tech companies like California’s relatively low-carbon power supply, but they expect to build and get data centers online in two years. Delays in permits and grid connections in the state make this nearly impossible, though the California Public Utilities Commission and Gov. Gavin Newsom have moved this year to streamline the processes.

California could also buy and warehouse strategic grid equipment, like power transformers, to reduce construction delays. In addition, the state’s utilities should analyze the grid needs of new data centers in clusters – given their burgeoning pipelines – rather than individually.

Second, the state needs to invest in its electricity infrastructure while maximizing its use. On average, California’s transmission system uses less than 40% of its capacity, but data center developers tend to cluster their facilities in certain areas. The state’s grid operator can guide data center developers to underutilized areas and generally improve coordination with the developers for times when power supplies get disrupted.

Third, if data centers can harness their flexibility in power use, that would avoid unnecessary utility investments to meet avoidable peak demand. Most of the facilities have backup generators and energy storage, and they can delay some AI processing. This requires more coordination with California’s grid operator and electric utilities.

Fourth, the state government should do what it can to accelerate deployment of clean, 24/7 generation, such as geothermal energy, low-carbon fuel cells, and natural gas with carbon capture and sequestration. Though such technologies are still in early deployment and relatively expensive, bringing them to scale in the mid- to long-term could substantially lower overall system costs, land requirements, and transmission infrastructure needs compared to meeting new power demand with solar panels and wind turbines alone. Building new power generation near new data centers could also greatly reduce transmission infrastructure needs.

Fifth, state regulators and utilities could advance innovation in business models and financing mechanisms, which could accelerate both load growth and climate progress. Such innovations include enhancing flexibility in electricity use throughout the power system, long-term contracts to help fund grid expansions, and low-interest loans through public-private partnerships.

Affordability imperative

California electricity is among the most expensive supplies in the United States, due to infrastructure hardening for wildfire, years of flat demand, and other factors. New AI demand needs to drive bills down, not up, to maintain political viability, meeting participants agreed.

“Greater demand is crucial to affordably modernizing California’s energy infrastructure,” said William Chueh, director of the Precourt Institute and a professor of materials science in Stanford’s School of Engineering. “Additional demand can increase transmission utilization and spread the costs of infrastructure investments we must make anyway across much more consumption, if we get this right.”

Immediate action

California has about 24 months to correct its course or risk losing its AI and data center competitive advantage to more agile states, meeting participants said. In that time, state agencies need to improve permitting, interconnections, forecasting, operations, and investments. Commercial customers, meanwhile, should commit to capacity agreements, site projects strategically, and enhance grid reliability through existing backup systems and electricity use flexibility. Likewise, California’s universities and Silicon Valley’s entrepreneurial and venture-capital ecosystem are well positioned to move promising ideas and technologies from lab to market quickly.

“Every month saved in siting, interconnection, and construction puts capital to work sooner, creates jobs, raises tax revenues, spreads fixed costs among more customers, and brings clean capacity online when it’s needed most,” said Min. “We must adapt quickly to harness AI’s once-in-a-lifetime economic and technological opportunity.”

The Precourt Institute met privately in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 9 with industry executives and executive branch employees on managing AI-fueled electricity growth nationally. On Nov. 5, it will host Powering AI Innovation Forum, which will take on a global perspective and is open to the public.

Stanford University will continue to use legacy and donor status in its admissions process by opting out of the state’s Cal Grant financial aid program, a move that would allow it to skirt a statewide ban on legacy admissions.

The announcement comes just a few weeks before Assembly Bill 1780, which was signed into law last year, takes effect Sept. 1. The law prohibits legacy or donor-driven preferences in admissions at any university “that receives, or benefits from, state-funded student financial assistance or that enrolls students who receive state-funded student financial assistance,” including private institutions like Stanford.

Colleges that receive state funding and continue to give legacy preference risk an increased burden of reporting requirements to the state government, as well as being publicly listed as noncompliant on the California Department of Justice’s website.

By withdrawing from Cal Grant, the state-funded financial aid program that provides millions of dollars a year to support hundreds of its students, Stanford will be able to continue those admissions practices without being subject to the law.

In a statement posted online July 29, university officials said Stanford will use university scholarship funding instead of state financial assistance programs, including Cal Grant.

A spokesperson for Stanford told KQED that the university will continue to evaluate how legacy status is considered in its admissions process.

Assemblymember Phil Ting, who introduced AB 1780, has said he was inspired to target legacy admissions by the Varsity Blues scandal, in which wealthy parents paid bribes to get their children into elite schools, including Stanford, USC, UC Berkeley and UCLA through side doors.

Student organizers, meanwhile, have also taken aim at university admissions policies that they say favor the children of wealthy and influential parents.

Ryan Cieslikowski, a Stanford alum who benefited from financial aid for students from less privileged backgrounds, said his experience there led him to Class Action, a nationwide nonprofit of students, alumni and faculty members who advocate for tackling classism and inequality within higher education.

Now a lead organizer for the nonprofit, he said his research showed schools like Stanford accept “more students from the top 1% of the income distribution than the entire bottom 50%.”

His fellow Stanford organizers traveled to Sacramento three times to testify before the state Legislature when AB 1780 was still in the process of becoming law.

“These are the various students whose children stand to benefit from legacy admissions in the future,” Cieslikowski said. “Even the people who stand to benefit from it disproportionately don’t think that their institution should practice it.”

He said that while the Trump administration is “exploiting America’s mistrust” of elite education for political purposes, universities should be striving to demonstrate that they serve the public interest, but “Stanford’s decision to continue legacy and donor preference does the exact opposite of that.”

The university’s legacy admissions statement was posted just two days before it announced sweeping layoffs of over 350 employees and a $140 million budget cut.

“Stanford has decided that accepting the disproportionately privileged children of Stanford alumni and Stanford donors is more important than taking free money from the state of California in order to provide financial aid for their low-income students,” Cieslikowski said. “Especially in the face of massive layoffs.”

The Stanford spokesperson did not respond to a follow-up question seeking to specify whether the decision to substitute university funding for Cal Grant was a factor or point of discussion in the budget cut.

Cieslikowski referenced Leland Stanford’s quote upon founding the institution in 1885: that “The children of California shall be our children.”

“By clinging to legacy preference, the university is sending the exact opposite message,” he said. “Saying that the children of wealthy alumni and donors come first, they shall be our children.”