Cleveland’s Largest Data Center, Cleveland-Made Jewlery at the Met Gala: CLE Daily

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💰 Another Cut: After cutting WCSB in October, Cleveland State University is eyeing to cut its nationally renowned poetry center press. 

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Today's Trivia

Clevelander Herbert Birch Kingston is credited for starting what fall holiday, which your friends in Pennsylvania have never heard of?

Developers have pitched a $1.6 billion data center complex for Cleveland’s East Side.

News | By Ken Prendergast, NEOTrans

Set between Cleveland’s Slavic Village and the industrial valley, it could be the city’s largest-ever data center in the coming years.

The Size: Proposed is a $1.6 billion, 150-megawatt data center campus comprising three buildings on 35 acres, currently owned by Morabito Enterprises, a longtime trucking firm at 3560 E. 55th St. 

• Morabito has been trying to sell its property off-market in recent years.

• The $1.6 billion price tag makes it one of the most expensive private-sector real estate developments in Greater Cleveland's history.

The Power Drain: A 150 MW facility sits in the high-end of hyperscale, which is designed for high-density AI and cloud computing, consuming power equivalent to a small city.

• Some estimates say such a facility’s power demands could equate to roughly more than 100,000 homes.

The Driving Force: Seeking the data center campus is Lakeland Equity Group, led by managing director Sam Khouri, whose family has been involved in many aspects of real estate in Greater Cleveland and beyond. 

Read more on the proposed data center.

Talk of the Town

Dee and Jimmy Haslam are donating $12.5 million to University Hospitals to focus on cancer research. The donation comes after Browns owner Dee was diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia, a rare blood cancer. 

The current WBO lightweight champion and Northeast Ohio native Abdullah Mason is coming home to defend his title on July 4. Mason is set to face former IBF super-featherweight champion Joe Cordina at the Wolisten Center.

Accountable Cleveland Era is suspending its recall effort of Cleveland Mayor Justin Bibb before the deadline. In a press release, the group said that it only collected around half of the 8,500 signatures needed to get the recall on a ballot.

For Cuyahoga County residents who want to receive the second half of their tax bill electronically, the deadline is May 18.  Those who do not sign up or miss the deadline will have to wait until their paper tax bill is mailed.

Megan Piccione's Cleveland-made jewelry shines at the Met Gala.

Fashion | By Julia Lombardo

Megan Piccione, the president of Beachwood-based atelier Megan Piccione High Jewelry, experienced the Met Gala firsthand, celebrities dressed in unique garments and tables of jewelers from the world’s most notable brands.

Among them was her own custom, hand-made creations, worn by model and activist Lauren Wasser.

• How it Happened: The private designer, whose jewelry-making content has garnered more than 3,500 followers on Instagram, was contacted through direct messages from Wasser’s stylist in Los Angeles, who was looking to collaborate for her client at the Met Gala.

• The Fit: Wasser’s jewels were accompanied by a gold Prabal Gurung suit and a stunning set of gold prosthetics, highlighting the core of her advocacy efforts

On The Map: “The Met Gala is a pivotal moment for me,” Piccione says, “to bring Cleveland's name to the carpet in front of Vogue and Anna Wintour is really cool, and I'm very honored that it's me that gets to do that.”

Read more on how Piccione made a career change that led to the Met Gala.

Yesterday's Trivia Answer

Upon its completion in 1927, what 24-story building Downtown was briefly the tallest building in Cleveland? The Ohio Bell Building (now the AT&T Huron Road Building)

Check back tomorrow for the answer to today's question

The rise of data centers will be my generation's and Gen Alpha's greatest challenge. We were born in a world of ever-increasing data collection with new apps that have caught our attention. Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat and now TikTok. 

Each one serves us a purpose. For me, Facebook is a tool to see what my family is up to. Instagram is more about seeing my friends' lives and watching reels. Snapchat was popular in high school, but I just have to see memories from then. 

TikTok had my attention, but then, with the ban, no ban and selling our data to the highest bidder turned me off from it. 

But when is it enough? When does our generation say no more apps? No more data collection? 

If we do not say no soon. We may kill off the world to data centers and not oil rigs and coal mines. Trading one problem for another.