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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by sanitation@lemmy.today to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] vegeta@lemmy.world 40 points 3 weeks ago

Meta contaminates life in general with many of it’s services

[–] Eryn6844@piefed.blahaj.zone 31 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

and... where is the water going now? how long can you not discharge it? until nobody is looking? are they required to clean it? i swear the god this place is run by dumb shits at every level. I'd move to fucking sweden if it wasn't so damn far away and COLD. get it together peeps in november freaking vote, make you grandma vote. if that dont work its time for revolution we can't wait any longer they animals and the plants can't wait any longer either.

[–] dan1101@lemmy.world 13 points 3 weeks ago

I just spoke to one of my county leaders about discharge last week and they repeated the beautiful story that the data center told them about treating the water to the state standards. I asked who exactly is ensuring the adhere to the standards, just because they can do it doesn't mean they will. And he had no answer for that, kept talking about other things.

[–] KyuubiNoKitsune@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I live in Sweden, fuck Sweden, people make just as idiotic and often times racist decisions, only here it's cold and there's copious amounts of apathy and loneliness. It's not just the weather that's cold.

[–] greyscale@lemmy.grey.ooo 3 points 3 weeks ago

Good effort keeping them at home.

[–] Evil_Incarnate@sopuli.xyz 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

One single bacterium?

[–] floofloof@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 weeks ago

One single kind of bacterium.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 4 points 3 weeks ago

It's meta, there was bound to be faeces

[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

Meta are assholes.