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

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

From Pensacola Morning News by NewsRadio92.3

July 20, 2026 · 51 min

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The episode discusses local concerns about banning AI data centers, features insights from local government officials, and covers the recent Blue Angels Air Show.

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…

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Host: Andrew McKay

Guests: Jared Moore, Jimmy Patronis

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Organizations: Pensacola City Council, Arizona

Places: Gulf Coast

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