Monthly Archives: June 2026

@gizmodo tells us a family donated land in Williamson County Texas for the purpose of parkland in 1999. The land was held by various parks and recreation foundations until eventually landing with an economic development council. The economic development council until a data center developer bought the land for $10 million.

What’s the new privacy right? Your location. Massachusetts legislature wants to ban the sale of your location. S 2619 passed both chambers of the legislature unanimously. The bill prevents the sale of your location data by companies that handle or process the personal data of more than 100,000 consumers. Tech Crunch

Advocacy groups are saying that the most efficient and effective way to pass housing reforms is to pass reforms in separate pieces of legislation and not by using an omnibus housing bill. Why? The logic is that omnibus bills failed in California, Colorado, and New York. Logic by others is that large omnibus bills where […]

This week Monterey Park, CA voters approved a ban on data center development. 86% of voters approved it. “The text of the city’s measure stated that its aim was to “protect air quality, drinking water resources and public health” and prevent increases to residents’ electricity and water rates, and it came about in response to community uproar over a […]