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Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria

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Meta’s AI Data Center Caught Infecting Town Water Supply With Deadly Bacteria
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With public anger at AI data centers boiling over, all it takes is one bad neighbor to get every data center in town locked out.



That’s the story unfolding in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where local officials are revoking waste-dumping privileges for every data center campus connected to municipal water services. As Cowboy State Daily reported, the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has rolled out a sweeping ban on fill-and-flush discharge, the process in which data centers flood their cooling s

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