by Frank Bergman, Slay News:
A firestorm is erupting in Wyoming after one of Big Tech giant Meta’s AI data centers was caught dumping a rare and deadly bacterium into the local water supply.
The scandal unfolded in Cheyenne, where local officials are now revoking waste-dumping privileges for every data center campus connected to city water services.
The sweeping crackdown came after Goat Systems LLC, a data center company affiliated with Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, was found to be in “significant noncompliance” with Cheyenne’s industrial waste regulations.
According to Cowboy State Daily, investigators traced a rare bacterium found in the city’s wastewater system back to discharge from Meta’s massive Cheyenne data center campus.
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The pathogen was identified as Cupriavidus gilardii.
The bacterium is rare, multidrug-resistant, and potentially deadly.
Although infections are extremely uncommon, the pathogen has been linked to ten deaths.
Three of those deaths involved immunocompromised children.
A review of known Cupriavidus cases found the bacterial infection had a mortality rate of 31.3 percent, based on 32 known infections dating back to 2009.
Officials Shut Down Data Center Discharge
The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities responded by banning fill-and-flush discharge for all data center campuses connected to municipal water services.
Fill-and-flush is a process in which data centers flood their cooling systems with water before powering up for the first time.
