[_vertigo]

Not really seeing what this has to do with Meta or data centers. The bacteria was traced back to a contractor, not really clear to me what the link between bacteria and data centers is.

If the story was like, “water was polluted with waste chemicals produced during data center construction,” I think I could see more of a connection.

[unknown_user_84]

If reputations have generally stayed constant, thedailymail is the connection. Maybe somewhere around the nexus of TMZ in their own special ways, imo.

* edit: I honestly didn't even bother to dig out the name of the bacteria because I figured it wasn't there or wrong and I'll make the chatbot struggle through it later.

[cucumber3732842]

This. Somebody's non-potable water truck was particularly nasty that day, they flushed the pipes with it, sent the flush water down the sewer and eventually the sewer people noticed some odd bacteria.

Since a cooling system is supposed to start off pretty darn clean and has a pretty clean construction process this is ironically exactly the kind of water you'd want to just run off but can't because the law.