🌱 Patch AM: How Mount Pleasant’s new data center could raise your power bill

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In today's newsletter:

• How Mount Pleasant’s new data center could raise your power bill

Also on today's calendar: Winter Break Trivia Fun on MONDAY 12/29 and 6 more events.

Today's riddle: What did the windowsill say to the glass? 🤔 (Answer below!)

Weather forecast:

• Monday: Mostly cloudy and breezy, with a high of 38 and low of 33 degrees.
• Tuesday: Some sun, then turning cloudy, temps: high: 46, low: 30.
• Wednesday: Mostly cloudy, afternoon mist, with a high of 42 and low of 37 degrees.

📰 News we're reading

• Wisconsin ratepayers owe $1 billion on shuttered power plants (milwaukeenns.org) — Mount Pleasant residents should know a massive new Microsoft data center here is helping drive utilities’ push for more power plants, while customers statewide already owe nearly $1 billion on closed coal facilities. The story explains how those “stranded asset” costs, regulatory decisions, and future data center power needs could keep adding to electric bills for years to come.
   

📸 Around Mount Pleasant

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🗓 Upcoming Events in Mount Pleasant

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★ Featured events ★

Thursday December 25

• Utility Commission
  8811 Campus Drive, Mt Pleasant
  2:30 pm

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Other local events

Wednesday December 24

• RAMAC office closed
  Racine Area Mfr-Commerce Inc , 300 5th St , Racine
• Christmas Eve Holiday - Village Hall Closed
  Village Hall , 8811 Campus Drive , Mount Pleasant
  8:00 am

Thursday December 25

• RAMAC office closed
  Racine Area Mfr-Commerce Inc , 300 5th St , Racine
• Christmas Holiday - Village Hall Closed
  Village Hall , 8811 Campus Drive , Mount Pleasant
  8:00 am
• Utility Commission-Cancelled
  Mount Pleasant, WI Calendar , 8811 Campus Drive , Mount Pleasant
  8:30 am

Monday December 29

• Bow Wow Blizzard Camp
  Wisconsin Humane Society Racine Campus , 8900 16th St , Mt Pleasant
  9:00 am
• Winter Break Trivia Fun on MONDAY 12/29
  130 W Ryan Rd , Oak Creek
  7:30 pm

Wednesday December 31

• RAMAC office closed
  Racine Area Mfr-Commerce Inc , 300 5th St , Racine

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🗓 Events Nearby

Monday December 22

• Yoga in the Park by Hot Yoga Kenosha
  Petrifying Springs Park , 5555 7th St , Kenosha
  5:30 pm

Tuesday December 23

• Village Board meeting
  Village & Town of Somers Municipal Building , 7511 12th St , Kenosha
  5:30 pm

Wednesday December 24

• RAMAC office closed
  Racine Area Mfr-Commerce Inc , 300 5th St , Racine

Friday February 6

• 2026 Snowdance® 10 Minute Comedy Festival
  Over Our Head Players/6th Street Theater , 318 6th St , Racine
  8:00 pm

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💬 Chatter

What your neighbors are talking about on social media

• Fed Ex delivered my package to the wrong house.
  If you received it or recognize this house please let me know (Nextdoor Stuart Rd/Old Spring St)

🗞 Nearby News

Sturtevant

• A Century After Pioneering Work Release, Wisconsin Corrections Officials Don't Track how Many Prisoners Participate (milwaukeecourieronline.com)

Racine

• Top 5 Racine County Eye Stories from the week of December 19th, 2025 (racinecountyeye.com)
• A word from our sponsors: Dec. 21, 2025 open houses from Bear Realty's Glenda and Butch Dupons – West of the I (westofthei.com)
• Fundraiser organizer celebrates record year, community supporting one another ahead of the holidays (tmj4.com)

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-- The Patch AM Team

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