Wow, good thing this company has a squeaky clean reputation otherwise or this might tarnish their reputation.
How many atrocities is this company responsible for? Counting just this week’s headlines, it’s already unconscionable.
“When the board shared that it found a substance in the city’s wastewater — not public drinking water — Fortis immediately stopped discharging industrial wastewater and began hauling it offsite,” a Meta spokesperson told Cowboy State.
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Well the ship was towed outside the environment.
Interviewer: Into another environment…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No, no it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in the environment.
Interviewer: No but from one environment to another environment…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: No it’s been towed beyond the environment, it’s not in an environment.
Interviewer: Well what’s out there?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: Nothings out there!
Interviewer: There must be something out there…?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: There is nothing out there, all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.
Interviewer: And?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And
20,000 tons of crude oil. truckloads of deadly bacteriaInterviewer: And what else?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And a fire.
Interviewer: And anything else?
Bob Collins - Australian Senator: And the part of the ship that the front fell off. But theres nothing else out there. It’s just a complete void.
does that normally happen?
What doesn’t Meta infect?
It loves to metastasize, like cancer.
how the fuck does a data center pump out a rare germ? Seriously. Isn’t the water meant for cooling computers?!
Nice and warm water, good place for it to thrive. The cooling towers in Arizona sometimes has stickers warning about legionnaires disease.
Cool. Charge Zuck with Attempted Murder.
Zuck and the entire board should face both civil and criminal charges.
Our Amazon processing centers are all set to discharge “treated” 95-degree water into our waterways. Board of Supervisors isn’t concerned. Good times.
95-degree water
F or c?
F haha
It became sentient
AI article? Or just clickbait? Waste water system is not the same as water supply.
Seems like they are, how would you say?
Careless People
Like the book of the same name.
What is the highest-leverage attack on this kind of installation? Like most people don’t have access to cruise missiles (though if you do, please do the thing!), but I’m thinking ventilation intake. Like take a can of expanding foam (ie, GreatStuff), duct-tape an M-80 to it, light and chuck it into the ducting.
take out the water supply intake by pouring two common products into the water intake lines before the pumps.
- roof sealant
- hydraulic cement
the roof sealant is viscous and sticky. it also cures while wet. it will gum up the pumps and turbines and make them sticky.
the cement will bind to the sealant and cure rapidly, seizing the rotation of the pumps and turbines.
it will be impossible to repair them and will need replacements. they may have replacements on site so you also need to puncture the cooling towers. bird shot from a shotgun should thoroughly shred the radiators.
if fascists can get away with shooting power distribution hubs then why can’t we shoot data centers?
Just get a shit load of meth heads and tell them how much copper there is in these fucking murder centers
Or maybe put the address on Craigslist and say you’re moving and there’s hella free copper, RAM and graphics cards.
That’s a good idea
Apparently that particular bacteria is basically everywhere on the environment and amounts of it around is pretty harmless. Datacenter just offered a nice and warm environment for it to prosper and then dumped the shitload of bacteria into water treatment system and the treatment plants can’t manage that much of it properly.
Also, while it could be deadly, it’s more likely that you’ll have couple of miserable days on the porcelain throne. But almost any underlying condition (being old, having any kind of gut issues, having flu…) can tip the scale and instead of literally shitty ilness you’ll end up in a box.
While Meta is of course guilty here on multiple things one might argue that local government is equally responsible since they allowed Meta to connect their sewer pipe in the first place without proper precautions. But maybe Zuck just had to have a new limousine or whatever so responsibility part was skipped.
Did you read the article? While infections aren’t common, it has a ~31% death rate.
Yes, but infections are somewhat rare on healthy adults, at least based on a quick search around the net about the virus. If you have some underlying condition you’re more likely go get the infection in the first place and as your immune system is already weakened by something it’s going to be more dangerous.
Why are you downplaying this behavior?
Tech companies and their subsidiaries/partners would be wise to control their emissions and fluid output, ensuring the safety and the health of those around them - including respecting the planet we live on.
It’s their responsibility.
so responsibility part was skipped.
The article mentions that the datacenter is run by a 3rd party. I’m not arguing to absolve Meta here, but I think this is a classic case of diffusion of responsibility. The more contractors and subcontractors that get involved in stuff like this, the more these kinds of problems crop up.
Town ? So people are fine right ?
