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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
Bowling: 2026 PBA South Region Palm Coast Open
ESL Bible Studies for Intermediate and Advanced Students
Grace Community Food Pantry on Education Way
Palm Coast Farmers’ Market at European Village
Al-Anon Family Groups
Nar-Anon Family Group
Bunnell City Commission Meeting
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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).
Ed P says
Top 3 most expensive candidate runs
1. Harris $1.99 billion
2. Biden $1.61 billion
3. Obama (2012) $1.12 billion
James says
What if?…
Auric Goldfinger: So that is the plan gentlemen, “Operation Grand Slam,” we contaminate the U.S. gold reserves at Fort Knox, which would devalue gold and making your’s, Spectra’s and my own holdings skyrocket in value… what do think?
After a few awkward moments of silence…
Criminal Kingpin 1: That’s one of the most absurd plans I’ve ever heard of… and to think, you and Speckra spent all this time, money and resources on this?
Criminal Kingpin 2: How much did that scale model cost?
Criminal Kingpin 3: Yeah… but ya know… it’s so crazy it might work.
Criminal Kingpin 1 (blurting out, jokingly): Come on, it would be easier just to have someone run for president… then to…
Auric, are you a US citizen?
Pogo says
Cartoon 100%
2030? The flies, roaches, bacteria, and viruses will have a big job cut out for them.
James says
A little while later…
Criminal Kingpin 2: I don’t know about you guys, but I’m glad we got outta there when we did.
Criminal Kingpin 3: Yeah, but that diorama of Fort Knox was something wasn’t it?… I mean, the details were extraordinary, right down to the miniature cars. And those little helicopters, how the heck did he get them to fly around the model that way?
Criminal Kingpin 1: Doesn’t matter… I know one thing though, neither plan will work out in the end.
Criminal Kingpin 3: Why is that?
Criminal Kingpin 1: You mean you didn’t notice?
Criminal Kingpin 2: Yeah, I think I did… the gas canisters.
Criminal Kingpin 1: No, when that Galore dame brought us all drinks.
Criminal Kingpin 2: Whaddya mean?
Criminal Kingpin 1: You didn’t notice?
There were four of us in the room, you two guys had scotch and water, I had bourbon and Auric had a schnapps.
Criminal Kingpin 2: So?
Criminal Kingpin 1: I pretty sure there were five drinks on the servering plate when that dame came in… but none when she left.
Who had the martini?
*Baddaboom*