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A data center used 29 million gallons of water without a bill, while residents complained about low water pressure (www.techspot.com)
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[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

Pretty much anyone else would be facing prison

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

But it was a company that did it. You can't put a company in prison.

[–] kylie_kraft@lemmy.world 2 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

if corporations are people, we should be able to put them in jail

[–] ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net 2 points 16 hours ago

But they don't have bodies. We could change their fiscal residence to prison...

I'm just kidding. It's of course people who made those decisions and should go to jail but in US they will just claim company did it and they just have to pay some fine.