By “drained” they mean stole.
“One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”
this post was submitted on 10 May 2026
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Exactly. If I modified my water meter to hide my usage, or tapped my neighbor’s pipes, I’d go to jail. This data center needs to be shut down and the owners investigated and charged with felonies.
Yeah, but you see you're not cooling millions of dollars of GPUs so someone can make AI generated tits or cheat on homework. That's a public service!
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Bullshit the utility knew. I worked in the water industry. No way the corporation took 30 million gallons of water without their knowledge. Totally Bullshit! They knew, just paid to turn a blind eye.
“They’re our largest customer, and we have to be partners,” she said. “It’s called customer service.”
One of the more "out there" arguments I've read in recent times was a guy arguing basically that data centers don't make water go away because of the water cycle. That water can't really be destroyed. It made me feel the same way as when people respond to the killing of the earth with "The earth isn't going anywhere. It'll still be here and in a couple million years it will be fine." Fucking psychos.
30 MILLION gallons??? Jesus fuck! Burn every one of them!!!
Please don’t burn them. Firefighters will then spend good amount of time, water, and foam to put out the fire.
Defund them, ban them, discourage companies from building them, turn off the existing ones. But do not burn them.
Can we like collectively burn one for fun? We've got to have enough other pyros to make it worth it
We can put on one heck of a Norwegian black metal show.
only if it can have some portuguese influences, i kill on the claves
We don't need no water, let the motherfucker burn...
They should have had their permits revoked and been forced to shut down.
We can't get the judicial to arrest literal child fuckers. It's laughable to believe they'd care about water being stolen by the same people.
Personally, I would have just "fixed" the problem by turning it off without notice. Then arrest whoever comes to turn it back on.
so... it wasn't "unnoticed"....
I hate these shitty headlines, like
"Chemical X - (Perfectly Safe) - Kills 5,000 Daily!"
same thing here. the press lies to push the same bullshit
We need to get rid of all of the data centers to save humanity. Who woulda thunk?
Tigert defended the utility’s decision to not levy a fine. “They’re our largest customer, and we have to be partners,” she said. “It’s called customer service.”
Oh, but my pipe breaks and I have to pay every red cent of what spilled. These data center explicitly stole mass amounts of water from a drought zone, and "it's called customer service". Give me a fucking break.
we have to be partners in crime!
You sure do