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Weather: A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 2pm. Mostly sunny, with a high near 90. Monday Night: A 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 8pm. Partly cloudy, with a low around 76.
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Today at a Glance:
The Beverly Beach Town Commission meets at 6 p.m. at the meeting hall building behind the Town Hall, 2735 North Oceanshore Boulevard (State Road A1A) in Beverly Beach. See meeting announcements here.
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Notably: From Statista: The rapid rise of artificial intelligence is driving a surge in electricity demand from data centers worldwide. As our chart, based on data from S&P Global Energy cited in the Statistical Review of World Energy, shows, global data center power consumption has increased steadily in recent years, reaching almost 800 terawatt-hours in 2025, nearly doubling from just over 400 terawatt-hours in 2020. That is more than the annual electricity consumption of Germany, the world’s third largest economy. The United States remains the largest market by far, with data center electricity demand exceeding 300 terawatt-hours in 2025. China ranks second and has also seen strong growth in recent years, while Europe and other regions are also experiencing a steady increase in demand, albeit at a much lower level. This trend highlights a growing challenge of the digital economy. As demand for computing power rises, largely driven by AI and related cloud services, the environmental footprint of data centers continues to expand, increasing the need for reliable and sustainable power supply. The expansion of renewable energy and storage capacity could play a key role in meeting the sector’s rising energy needs. By 2030, data center electricity consumption is projected to double again to more than 1,500 terawatt-hours, which is equivalent to total residential electricity use in the United States in 2025.
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July 2026
Flagler County Commission Morning Meeting
Beverly Beach Town Commission meeting
Nar-Anon Family Group
Flagler Beach United Methodist Church Food Pantry
Weekly Chess Club for Teens, Ages 10-18, at the Flagler County Public Library
Flagler County Library Board of Trustees
Flagler Beach Library Writers’ Club
Flagler Beach Planning and Architectural Review Board
Palm Coast City Council Meeting
Bunnell Planning, Zoning and Appeals Board
Hammock Community Association Meeting
Random Acts of Insanity Standup Comedy
For the full calendar, go here.
The amount of electricity used by the eight plutonium-production reactors at Hanford is still classified information, but a good guess is fifteen or twenty megawatts each — perhaps 160 megawatts in all. Nowhere else in a country involved in a gigantic war effort could one have found that kind of power to spare. In the end, the Axis powers were no match for two things: the Russian winters, and an American hydroelectric capacity that could turn out sixty thousand aircraft in four years. We didn’t so much outmanoeuver, outman, or outfight the Axis as simply outproduce it.
–From Marc Reisner’s Cadillac Desert (1986).
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