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YOUR MORNING NEWS ROUNDUP

Fri May 30 2025

Lorenzino Estrada | Digital Producer

Good morning, Arizona. Here’s what our reporters are working on and what you should know about what’s happening across the state before you start your day.

A $25 billion data center development is slated for 2,100 acres in this Valley city, following a Phoenix investment group’s purchase of the land.

More on where the data center will be and why some leaders are cautious about data centers, despite demand.

What’s a haboob?

A haboob comes through Gilbert, Ariz., on July 14, 2018.

Patrick Breen/The Republic

After a dry winter and spring, there’s a lot of dust waiting for the first monsoon wind storm, a phenomenon known as a haboob. Here’s what to know.

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Today in history

Here are just some of the events on this date in the past.

•	On this day in 1868: Decoration Day was first observed as a national holiday, honoring those who had died in military service during the Civil War, often by decorating their graves with flowers. The holiday later became Memorial Day, extended to honor all who died in military service and was observed May 30 each year through 1970, after which it has fallen on the last Monday in May.
•	In 1922: A segregated audience gathered for the dedication of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. Former President William Taft, then chief justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, dedicated the memorial that has, through the decades, maintained symbolic significance within and beyond the Civil Rights Movement.
•	In 1942: Japanese American Fred Korematsu was arrested for refusing to be placed in an internment camp. He was convicted and given five years of probation, a verdict upheld by the U.S. Court of Appeals and the U.S. Supreme Court based on “military necessity” for the detentions. In 1983, Korematsu’s conviction was overturned by a federal judge when presented with official reports previously withheld from the courts, showing there was no military necessity and Japanese Americans presented no threat during World War II.
•	In 1971: The probe Mariner 9 launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, en route to Mars, where for just under a year, it mapped the surface of the planet and relayed information about the Martian atmosphere, dust storms, gravity and more.
•	In 1980: Amid heightened security hired by the school he had sued in order to bring the date of his choice, Rhode Island teenager Aaron Fricke brought a male date to his senior prom. The court had ruled that the freedom of speech ensured by the First Amendment outweighed the threat of violence against Fricke and his date.
•	In 2020: The SpaceX Crew Demo-2 mission launched from Kennedy Space Center in Florida to dock with the International Space Station. It was the first crewed orbital mission to originate in the U.S. since the end of the space shuttle program in 2011 and the first carried out by a commercial carrier.

— William Cain, USA TODAY Network

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AZ Briefing: $25B data center slated for this metro Phoenix city

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