after tracing a rare bacterium in the city’s reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup.
I am guessing the fact that the reclamation and reuse systems required months of offline-cleanup after a rare “metal-resistant” bacteria was detected suggests that their processing abilities are tailored towards common harmful bacteria, with detection to alert issues from uncommon bacteria.
Say a pest exterminator is used to using an air rifle to deal with a rat problem (it’s a shit example, but work with me here). Turning up to a rat infestation that also has bears with only an air rifle probably means running away and coming back with a new technique.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
“It’s already the garbage man’s job to take away my trash, why can’t I throw away my old batteries and fluorescent bulbs?”
quick_snail@feddit.nl 3 hours ago
Mercury from fluorescent bulbs isn’t normal trash and can’t be cleaned. We’re talking about bacteria.
Your analogy would be better if they were dumping CFCs or viruses.
eestileib@sh.itjust.works 2 hours ago
I haven’t ever run a water treatment plant and I’m suspecting you haven’t either.
They’re probably designed, like semiautomated residential waste collection, to operate within certain parameters that are relatively inscrutable to outsiders. And honestly I’ll trust the person who decides to work in wastewater reclamation over anybody operating a data center.