And Zuckerberg is going to prison for using biological warfare when?
Oh, right, capitalism, I forgot.
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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
Erm. Shut down the data centre completely until forever.
Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium
Just one single bacterium?
Just send head and shoulders to all the residents, easy solve.
Selenium, it's what plants crave.
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.
This will make them stop and think about how can they lobby to loosen up the contamination laws.
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?
"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?"
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 heavy metals or viruses. They're not.
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.
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.