Trump's USA

Border issue
Florida closes "Alligator-Alcatraz"

The US migrant detention center "Alligator-Alcatraz" will soon be closed, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday, according to The Hill.

- When we opened it in the summer of 2025, it was always intended to be temporary, because we only did it because the federal government did not have the resources to hold these people themselves, DeSantis said at a press conference.

Construction of the detention center began in the summer of 2025 on a disused airfield in the Everglades swamps in Florida. The facility quickly gained attention after Florida's conservative Attorney General James Uthmeier described it in a post on X as an "all-in-one shop", where anyone trying to escape would encounter little more than alligators and pythons.

According to CBS Miami, about 1,400 people are currently being held in the detention center. They are expected to be moved in the coming weeks.

Data center expansion
Governor backs down – partially – on data center in Utah

Utah's Republican governor Spencer Cox has listened to critics and will back down partially on plans for a new, giant data center in the state. He said this during a panel discussion, the Daily Herald reports.

– People were right to resist, says Cox, who promises that the state is now "focusing on the first phase" of the construction. He does not want to go so far as to say that the rest of the project has been canceled, but says that the later parts are based on the first phase meeting the state's requirements.

Although the messages are not completely clear, the statement represents a significant change in Cox's tone towards critics. Last week, he claimed that the opposition to the data center construction was "the stupidest thing ever" and suggested that the critics were paid by a foreign power.

The Startos data center, when fully built, would use large amounts of water and more electricity than the rest of the state combined. The fact that the construction was approved by the state government despite widespread protests has led to new, even more widespread, protests.