07/20/26 Pensacola Morning News with Andrew McKay 7a Hour

Good Morning! The 7am Hour brings us: Days of our Pensacola. asking Pcola residents to ban AI data centers, the proposal is a morotorium on a center that is 50 megawatts or more, concerns w language in the morotorium, how do you write that law? banning AI? Do they ban a 20 or 30 megawatt data center? Or just the 50 megawatt data centers? Pensacola City Councilperson Jared Moore talks about this is why local government exists to talk about environment and water - but  a lot of our lives use this data.  Technology park that might ban some of the things that go there. US Representative Jimmy Patronis joins the show He talks about:  Daylight Savings Time - do we opt out? Arizona opted out. Blue Angels Air Show - we flew 5 jets instead of 6. Rep Patronis was in town to watch the Blues fly.  Claim that it was over 250,000 people on the beach for Saturday's air show - a different type of enthusiasm turned out.   We received millions of dollars woth of free publicity with media after the low pass.  Rep Patronis was our CFO for awhile. He talks about storms on the Gulf Coast. He says: We are in hurricane season. Use your smart phone. Get footage of your house inside and out - a slow vidoe talking to yourself. Email them to yourself. God forbid you have damage. Insurance people are going to want to ascertain fault. All of this will speed up the claims process.  Citizens may stifle opportunity when trying to ban Data Centers , whatever is on your phone - China can see it if youre using Tik Tok as China tries to beat us in tech. He  (Rep Patronis) says he cant supoort Data centers if it increases electric rates for local citizens. Capital expenses taking place, what dependency the world is going to have on AI.