NYTIMES (Lydia DePillis) - G.D.P. Is a Flawed Measure of Prosperity. Alternatives Are On the Way.
The United Nations has a new plan for weighing economic gains alongside health and environmental progress. But consensus is elusive.
NYTIMES (Juliet Macur and Will Warasila) - The Homesteading Mother of 6 Taking On Big Tech
Kassi Solberg has concerns about a proposed data center complex, the size of 3,800 football fields, near her home. Trust us, the developer says.
NEWSNATIONNOW (Rob Taub) - Woman fighting to save mother's home from data center developers
Brown said the power companies "pretty much" told her mother they have to be out by a certain day.
ABCNEWS - WATCH: Students raise money to protect eagle habitat
Elementary school students are holding lemonade stands and bake sales to help save an eagle habitat from being developed into luxury homes.
HUFFPOST - Interior Cancels Rule That Put Conservation On Equal Footing With Development
The move aims to ease restrictions on industries and boost drilling, logging, mining and grazing on taxpayer-owned land.
NYTIMES (Amanda Abrams) - A 22,000-Home Community Is Being Built in a 5,000-Person Town
Chatham Park, a master-planned community in Pittsboro, N.C., is expected to expand the town to 60,000 people when completed.
WASHINGTONPOST (Tim Craig) - A town of 7,000 planned so many data centers, it’s like adding 51 Walmarts
Developers plan to build six sprawling data center campuses in Archbald, Pennsylvania, covering about 14 percent of the town’s land. Residents are fighting back.
NYTIMES (Dana Rubinstein) - Mamdani Faces Pressure to Cancel $2 Billion Deal to Expand Hudson Yards
Related Companies struck a deal with Eric Adams to have New York City finance a costly platform to facilitate new housing. Mayor Zohran Mamdani said advancing the deal was not a priority.
NYTIMES (Kevin Roose) - How Do You Measure an A.I. Boom?
A chart created by METR, a nonprofit A.I. organization, has become an industrywide obsession as it measures the rapid development of big A.I. systems.
NPR (Katerina Barton) - Indonesia's capital of the future faces doubts in the present
Indonesia is racing to build a new capital, promising a greener, futuristic city. But many citizens aren't convinced it will live up to the vision.