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Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system

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Headline: Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system

Source: Hacker News

Original details: Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed reuse system offline for months of cleanup. Board revoked contractor's fill-and-flush discharge privileges on March 24, and a wider suspension now covers every data center connected to city services. Fill-and-flush is a commissioning step where crews fill cooling loop's piping with water, flush to clear debris before system run, then send used water to drain. Goat Systems routed that flush water, containing Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne's sanitary sewer, per Frank Strong, Board's engineering and water resource division manager. Strong said fill water purchased from Board itself, origin of bacterium unknown, but lab staff caught it in February during routine fecal-b