Good morning.
Tuesday in Whitewater will be partly sunny with a high of 66. Sunrise is 7:23 and sunset is 5:54 for 10 hours 31 minutes of daylight. The moon is a waning gibbous with 96.8% of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Finance Committee meets at 5 PM and the Aquatic Center Committee at 5:30 PM.
On this day in 1961, NASA tests the first Saturn I rocket in Mission Saturn-Apollo 1.
There’s a campaign question in Wisconsin about which gubernatorial candidate opposes data centers more. That’s because data centers are unpopular:
Data centers have become a major risk for the politicians who support them, with less than two weeks left before the midterms.
Half of Americans now oppose data centers being built within three miles of their home, according to new results from The POLITICO Poll, conducted by PF Global. That’s the highest opposition since POLITICO began tracking Americans’ views of the sprawling technology hubs and nearly double the share of people who said the same back in January (28%).
See Timothy Cama and Katherine Long, Poll: Data center backlash builds as midterms near, POLITICO, October 25, 2026.
This libertarian blogger would leave all of this as a local issue, without a statewide or national moratorium. If communities wanted these centers, they could have them; if communities opposed them, then they wouldn’t have a data center nearby. Opposition is a legitimate, rational local choice.
By contrast, there is someone who thinks that opposition is evidence of ignorance or stupidity:
“The only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor,” Trump wrote. “If they want to be successful and rich, with far lower taxes and jobs all over the place, let Data Reign.”
See Joe Sonka, Trump says data center critics want to be ‘backwards and poor,’ drawing bipartisan rebuke in Kentucky, Kentucky Public Radio, August 31, 2026.
People should decide using their own sense of what’s best for the communities in which they live. So, the considered judgments of residents themselves, or the opinion of this savvy Florida gentleman?
Here is video of that 10.27.1961 Saturn launch, the first launch in a family of rockets that would take America to the moon: