Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium

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• quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne’s sanitary sewer

  Wait, wut. So they didn’t dump it into the watershed. They sent it to the water treatment center.

  Isn’t the sanitary sewer’s job to clean black water? Like they already get water with poop in it (and all the bacterium that comes with literal feces). Why is this a problem?

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  • towerful@programming.dev ⁨17⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    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.

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  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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?”

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    • quick_snail@feddit.nl ⁨47⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ 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.

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• godsammitdam@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  And Zuckerberg is going to prison for using biological warfare when?

  Oh, right, capitalism, I forgot.

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  • roserose56@lemmy.zip ⁨59⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Why Mark should go to jail? Are you nuts? Are you idiot? We should put America first, data center first! because we need to win the war of AI! /j

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• AvocadoCumToast@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Please I hope they consider that Meta is releasing their own betting platform. This will enrich shareholders and increase value for our customers. We’ll tear down every tree, contaminate every body of water, and head shot every gopher if we have to.

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• MrSulu@lemmy.ml ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Erm. Shut down the data centre completely until forever.

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• Wiz@midwest.social ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city’s reclamation water supply with bacterium

  Just one single bacterium?

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  • Zorque@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

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    • Psaldorn@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Just send head and shoulders to all the residents, easy solve.

      Selenium, it’s what plants crave.

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• kubica@fedia.io ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  This will make them stop and think about how can they lobby to loosen up the contamination laws.

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