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⚾ Longhorns’ Baseball Coach Fired

University of Texas Baseball Head Coach David Pierce was fired after eight seasons on Monday. Pierce and UT Athletics Director Chris Del Conte said in written statements that the decision was mutual. [KVUE]

💧 Austin Is Nearly As Humid as Houston

Welp. Dew point temperatures are rising, making Austin feel almost just as humid as Houston, the muggiest city to probably ever exist. In Austin last year, the average dew point was 67.5 — only a bit behind Houston, which had an average dew point of 71.5. [Texas Monthly]

• The higher a city’s dew point, the more moisture is in the air. [National Weather Service]

🤖 AI May Stress Power Grid

Texas’ power grid operator has said that it can’t forecast how much energy cryptomines and other data centers are going to use this summer, especially as more are built to support artificial intelligence systems, which eats up a lot of energy.

• “If you do a Google search and just look up, ‘What is ERCOT?’ If you did that with a regular Google system versus an AI Google search, the amount of energy that it takes to run the AI search is between 10 and 30 times the power requirement than to do a traditional Google search,” said ERCOT CEO Pablo Vegas. [KUT]

🎂 Austin Cake Creations in Ryan Reynolds Movie

Local artist Jasmine Archie’s fake cakes are featured in Paramount Pictures’ “IF,” starring Ryan Reynolds and Steve Carrell. Archie is the creator behind “Pretty Shitty Cakes,” which uses spackle, cardboard, and acrylic paint to make long-lasting cakes as fun home decor.

• “So crazy seeing my creations on the big screen even if it’s for a tiny second! Still cannot believe this💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘 absolutely insane an imaginary Steve Carell is standing in front of PSC ahhhhhh,” Archie said on Instagram. [Instagram ]