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Data center "mistakenly" used 30 million gallons of water (discuss.online)

submitted 2 days ago by VetOfTheSeas@discuss.online to c/aboringdystopia@lemmy.world

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[–] Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world 5 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

Rage Bait: they did it “illegally.”

but weren’t billed because they didn’t inform the local utility of one water hookup,

^^ That's the illegal part.

When a consumer hooks up a utility without informing the utility, that is "theft of services" and they are arrested.

https://www.4029tv.com/article/fort-smith-stealing-electricity/71286214

[–] shitwizard420@crazypeople.online 1 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

It has been clarified that the hookup wasn't without the knowledge of the utility, it was a failure of a new transmitter/verifying they were getting readings.

https://thecitizen.com/2026/05/11/behind-fayettes-qts-water-controversy-a-missed-meter-8000-workers-and-a-massive-construction-project/

I work in this realm and as soon as I read the quotes from the utility in the first batch of articles it was immediately clear that people who didn't have all the information were responding to inquiries. Your average utility employee, even in admin functions have zero media training. If I had a penny for every time I had to deal with the fallout of some ambitious comment that was taken out of context by the media or public, I'd have several pennies.