But all those voters in that town laughing all the way to the… hmm. What did they get out of that data center deal? A handful of jobs? No increase in the tax base? Higher power bills? Hang on a sec, is Donald Trump on a city council in Georgia? Did I miss that?
congresswoman
Put some fucking respect on her name, it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
That congresswoman was AOC.
That actually had me wondering. This is about Georgia. AOC is a gem, but why is it a NY rep bringing this to the EPA and not that town’s own congressional rep?
So I looked it up in the article, which never names the town nor its congressional representative but refers to Morgan County, Georgia multiple times. (The author goes out of their way to talk around various glaring facts; this is one of them.) So I looked up Morgan County, Georgia, which is in Georgia’s 10th congressional district, and is currently represented by Republican Mike Collins.
And there it is. Mike Collins is himself the answer as to why it’s AOC, a congresswoman from New York, holding up a jar of muddy water in Congress on behalf of the citizens of rural Georgia that he was elected to represent.
AOC is EVERYBODY’S Congressional Rep.
Truth. And AOC is the best of them. But that doesn’t let Trump’s little MAGA culture warrior off the hook. This is the Laken Riley Act guy.
If I were in Georgia’s 10th and had a mind to run, I’d wipe the floor with commercials showing AOC representing the 10ths need for clean water and physically holding up that jar of muddy water in Congress on their behalf, interspersed with shots of Collins’ own social media and deepfaked AI ads against Jon Ossoff illustrating what he’s really been busy with, and asking why he’s nowhere around when they simply need clean water.
Good posts.
Don’t know if its the same thing since municipal wells are usually deeper than private wells. My grandpa had a well that was only three hundred feet deep. One summer there was a drought and he used well water to keep his forty acres of crops, mostly potatoes alive. His water turned brown when he drained the well down more than usual. By November it was back to normal. It could be the stress that horrible facility has put on the local water table that has caused this and wont stop until they are stopped.
Wait for billionaire Zuck to make a quick phone call to Trump followed by a “donation” and the EPA will say that there is nothing wrong with the water.
Brown water means its got more minerals which are good for ya.
Also, brown means the water is in line with the political climate. Clear blue water is liberal Democrat water, boo!
It’s what power plants crave
Just imagine having clear water to drink. Like a toilet.
This is like the right mix of stupid that I could see someone actually making this argument.
We live in a very normal time.
Non-zero chance we will get clips of RFK drinking the water on TikTok while promising that it’s safe
Zuck should drink it to show it’s healthy.
“I think we all prefer orange juice with pulp. And I don’t know about you, but I prefer my water with pulp too.”
Robots can’t get dysentery.
Meta in court (for the 900th time): Your honour, what doesn’t kill you makes you stronger
Zuck will just eminent domain the entire congressional district.
The title is missing a significant keyword here: “construction”
A more accurate headline:
Meta data center construction allegedly muddies Georgia town’s drinking water, investigation underway — EPA promises immediate investigation after congresswoman brings dirty jars of water to hearing
This isn’t exclusive to datacenters, any sort of large construction projects should be under the microscope right now. If there are legal loopholes allowing water supplies to be contaminated, that should be addressed. Meta and any other companies responsible for this should be billed the costs for cleaning up or for funding additional water treatment solutions to make up for this.
I hope they regard it as attempted murder (multiple cases)!
Silly rabbit. Laws are for Poors!
If only we could collectively have that kind of class consciousness
I always imagine Facebook HQ being heavily postered with “What would Cancer do?” as guidance on tricky issues like environmental safety or ethical dilemmas of any kind.
Someone call Erin Brockovich!
How do they even manage that, is there no filtration at all for the water supply or have they been pumping dirty water back in - which shouldn’t be allowed even if it was clean.
Not an expert but I believe some municipalities (and some older homes) rely on well water with pretty minimal treatment. This is usually fine because the water moves through the well system so slowly everything naturally filters, but if you suddenly have a data center or fracking system forcing orders of magnitude more water through the ecosystem than was originally designed, those natural filtration systems start to fail catastrophically.
Did you stay at a Holiday Inn last night?
Sir, this is a Wendy’s.
Not only that, but if there are chemicals in that water that can’t be filtered, that’s just in the well water now. As someone who grew up on well water in the country, that’s terrifying, as you aren’t gonna get water pumped in at a price that is viable. Especially when you realize most of rural Georgia is like that (same with a lot of southern states).
From a quick search, it looks like the construction site is here: Meta Stanton Springs Data Center #2 https://cartes.app/?allez=Meta+Stanton+Springs+Data+Center+%25232|w1282590996|-83.67669|33.59840
It’s very close to a number of streams/creeks that feed into lakes and other water sources nearby.
With the amount of vegetation that has been removed, all it takes is a good rainy day to have a lot of that mud running off into the water supply.
So I don’t know the specifics here and I don’t doubt there is substantial environmental impact.
Do want to point out though that whenever my area has construction on water pipes we often have a flush water notice where we need to basically run our taps to flush out dirt and debris that got in during construction. Several pipes in my neighborhood were replaced in the past couple of years and we had to do it every few months. I could see that being the cause here too, if the neighborhoods are anywhere near said water pipe construction.
I do doubt the EPA will do jack about any of it. They might go out and do some survey and shake down the organization funding the work for a bribe, but there’s no way they’re gonna stop it if they pay up in those closed door conversations.
EPA? Weren’t they abolished in the purge?
Should clean the jars before filling them with dirty water.
Agreed, no one is going to take her seriously if she’s using dirty jars!
EPA promises immediate investigation
You mean the oil exec Cheeto lackey that got put in place as the director of the EPA, that EPA? He will have it investigated and the results will be that meta isn’t doing anything wrong
