Residents in some areas of Ohio have organized a petition proposing to amend the state's constitution to enact a ban covering data campuses larger than 25 MW, preventing giant hyperscale sites from springing up anywhere in the Buckeye State. The petition was organized by residents of Adams and Brown counties, not far from Cincinnati, and submitted to the Ohio Attorney General's office on Monday.
Four events - Field Day, Cross the Tracks, City Splash and Mighty Hoopla - will take place from May 23-31. Summer Events Ltd, which runs the Brockwell Live series, submitted its first full planning application in 2025. This was the first time that planning permission had to be granted for the festivals to run in the park - until the legal battle which was won by anti-festival campaign group Protect Brockwell Park (PBP) in 2025.
According to The New York Times, Meta is set to spend $65 million this year backing politicians who are sympathetic to its cause. This is driven by concerns that its AI ambitions might be hampered by regulations intended to keep people safe, plus growing opposition from communities to giant data campuses popping up in their local area. Meta is starting up two new super PACs (Political Action Committees - organizations to influence election outcomes),
The Department of Homeland Security is moving ahead with plans to open a new immigrant-detention facility in a small town upstate, and the warehouse where it's supposed to be located is owned by none other than former Trump adviser Carl Icahn. As the Monroe Gazette first reported after the DHS posted a January 8 advisory on the plan, the former Pep Boys warehouse at 29 Elizabeth Drive in Chester is owned by an IEP Chester LLC, a subsidiary of Carl Icahn's holding company, Icahn Enterprises.
Landowner, City of London Corporation (CLC) has chosen Daisy Green to run cafes at Queen's Park, Golders Hill Park, Parliament Hill Lido and Parliament Hill Fields from spring 2026, after putting these leases out to tender. Emma Fernandez, who co-runs three of the sites, said the CLC was "destroying this fabric which is holding together the community". The corporation said Daisy Green, would bring new investment to the sites, and said its remarketing exercise was carried out in an "open, inclusive, widely publicised" way.
The New York State Department of Transportation has quietly announced that it was pausing work on a controversial highway expansion in the Hudson Valley that locals opposed. Earlier this month, the agency posted, but did not distribute, a statement on its website announcing that the Route 17 widening project in the Catskills - long regarded as one of the biggest highway boondoggles in the state - had been put on ice.
Bexley is surrounded by open spaces, including East Wickham and Danson Park, contributing to its unique character that balances proximity to London with a rich historical soul closely linked to Kent.
I love this tournament, I love what they've done with it, but I do not love what they're developing it into...standing in the morning sun, handing out flyers against the All England Lawn Tennis Club's expansion plans.
We don't want battery storage facilities in Nassau. We don't want wind turbines off Nassau. We don't want power lines for these facilities running through Nassau.
