Meta's AI data center campus in Wyoming is in trouble after local officials linked the facility's wastewater to a deadly pathogen.
  • acockworkorange@mander.xyzEnglish
    21 minutes

    “When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater — not public drinking water — Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite,” a Meta spokesperson told Cowboy State.

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.

    Interviewer: Into another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.

    Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment.

    Interviewer: Well what’s out there?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Nothings out there!

    Interviewer: There must be something out there…?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.

    Interviewer: And?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And 20,000 tons of crude oil. truckloads of deadly bacteria

    Interviewer: And what else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And a fire.

    Interviewer: And anything else?

    Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But theres nothing else out there. It’s just a complete void.

  • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    1 hour

    Apparently that particular bacteria is basically everywhere on the environment and amounts of it around is pretty harmless. Datacenter just offered a nice and warm environment for it to prosper and then dumped the shitload of bacteria into water treatment system and the treatment plants can’t manage that much of it properly.

    Also, while it could be deadly, it’s more likely that you’ll have couple of miserable days on the porcelain throne. But almost any underlying condition (being old, having any kind of gut issues, having flu…) can tip the scale and instead of literally shitty ilness you’ll end up in a box.

    While Meta is of course guilty here on multiple things one might argue that local government is equally responsible since they allowed Meta to connect their sewer pipe in the first place without proper precautions. But maybe Zuck just had to have a new limousine or whatever so responsibility part was skipped.

  • Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4 hours

    Wow, good thing this company has a squeaky clean reputation otherwise or this might tarnish their reputation.

        • VonReposti@feddit.dkEnglish
          3 hours

          Let me explain my comment because apparently it flew over your head: OC used sarcasm to highlight that they in fact have a horrible reputation. I made a joke to extend on OC’s joke highlighting the fact that they might not even know what a reputation is, let alone reflect over their own.

  • Zwuzelmaus@feddit.orgEnglish
    4 hours

    Bacteria? If it came from the computers, it should have been viruses.

    /s