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.
Non-zero chance we will get clips of RFK drinking the water on TikTok while promising that it’s safe
Brown water means its got more minerals which are good for ya.
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.
trumps team investigating trumps buddies. We all know what’s going on and the pretense that we are still living in a stable world is unbelievable.
Keep voting Republican, securely they’ll fix it! 🙄
I’ll just abstain until the system is magically fixed or until a third party somehow gets a majority vote. Until then, I’m perfectly fine with the obviously worse party winning.
I didn’t directly vote for them, I only chose to let them win, so it’s not my fault if they win.
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.
congresswoman
Put some fucking respect on her name, it was Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
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.
It is a priority to ensure that water quality standards established by EPA are being met. And so, we’ll be looking into that, certainly.
They will, of course, lower the standards.
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.
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
EPA? Weren’t they abolished in the purge?
Muddy water is a small price to pay for AI to take away your job.
It’s a bit disingenuous to only report the negatives sides to this.
Sure, AI will take your job, pollute the environment and flood the internet with fake news to manipulate the population and make things worse for the ordinary citizen. But that’s just one side of the story, things are not as black and white as they are claimed to be.
Have you even considered the upside of this? AI will generate amazing short-term profits for the shareholders. They may even be able to buy a fifth home or a third yacht. If you put it like that, it suddenly doesn’t seem as bad, does it?
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I hope they regard it as attempted murder (multiple cases)!
Silly rabbit. Laws are for Poors!
