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Tuesday in Whitewater will be windy with a high of 48. Sunrise is 7:13 and sunset is 5:03, for 9 hours, 50 minutes of daytime. The moon is a waning crescent with 1.2 percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5 PM, and the Public Arts Commission at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1958, the Lego company patents the design of its Lego bricks, still compatible with bricks produced today.
New data centers may be coming to Wisconsin, in Kenosha and Wisconsin Rapids:
More data centers — computer warehouses that underpin artificial intelligence and store everything from PayPal transactions to YouTube videos — are coming to Wisconsin.
Microsoft has purchased 240 acres for a new data center complex in Kenosha, the city announced Monday. It will sit northwest of the intersection of Interstate 94 and Route 142, 6 miles south of the company’s $3.3 billion data center campus under construction in Mount Pleasant.
Meanwhile, the hydroelectricity that once powered Wisconsin Rapids’ paper mill will now flow to a new data center. The data center developer Digital Power Optimization, known as DPO, announced on Thursday it has purchased the site and its power supply.
See Nick Rommel, New data centers planned for Kenosha, Wisconsin Rapids (‘Hydroelectricity, unused since paper mill closure, will power Wisconsin Rapids facility’), Wisconsin Public Radio, January 27, 2025.
Microsoft is one of the world’s largest corporations; DPO is far smaller, and involved in the volatile cryptocurrency mining sector.
Two announcements do not mean two constructed data centers. They mean only two announcements.
Highway bridge in Germany demolished with controlled explosion: