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Undersea Data Center in China. Credit China Daily

Instead of a Data Center on Land, How About One at Sea?

We are tied up in knots here in Virginia, and across the nation, over where to build data centers to accommodate streaming video, online banking, cloud storage and of course to meet the computational power needs of generative AI.

Neighbors are objecting because of noise and their need for significant electricity and water to cool the servers.

Chuck’s in Hampton Might Be the ONLY Place in Virginia to Buy or Service Your Personal Camera

It was the chance to shoot pictures of pretty girls for pay that led Chuck Marshall into photography a half century ago. But when he realized that selling cameras would be more lucrative, he went into retail, eventually opening Chuck’s Camera Plus on Settlers Landing Road in Hampton. The former Army parachute jumper (170^th Airborne) and current dancer (“three times a week”) has outlasted the competition.

Theresa and Kate are the New Faces of Norfolk’s Hallowed Naro Theater

If you frequent the 90-year-old Naro Cinema on Colley Avenue, you have seen or met these two ladies, who now own the attraction, succeeding Thom Vourlas and Tench Phillips who brought it back to life as a film house in 1977.

At Blue Cow, the Waffle Cone Grills Never Stop

The busiest place in the Cape Henry Plaza Shopping Center on a recent warm Saturday night was Blue Cow Ice Cream, and no one was hustling more than Haley Powers who was “manning” three waffle cone makers.

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