❌️💧Meta's closed loop cooling system at a new data center in Wyoming unlawfully released a rare bacterium into a city's wastewater system, contaminating the reuse system, prompting months of cleanup, its permit revoked, and a suspension on more data center discharges. 🧵

It took more than 4 months for the city to investigate and publicly identify Meta as the culprit, even though it suspended Meta's permit back in March, suggesting it new the culprit a long time ago but withheld the info.

The bacterium found is not routinely tested for.

🚨The IURC approved a sweetheart deal between NIPSCO and Amazon that provides for billions in rate subsidies for AI data centers at the expense of Hoosier ratepayers, while keeping the details secret.

It's one of the worst data center deals I've seen. 🧵 Apparently, since the Big Tech company that is getting billions of dollars in rate subsidies is satisfied with the secret deal, as well as the utility that is making massive, unregulated profits off of it, that means the IURC thinks it should approve the deal? 🤨

The latest Jacobin article attacking data center moratoria weaponizes social justice language to shift blame from the Big Tech billionaires onto working class Americans fighting to protect their communities against further exploitation.

Let's debunk some of these absurd claims🧵
First, the article claims moratoria will lead companies to raise prices and some would lose access.

But...that's already happening, and is already case, and has nothing to do with moratoria! AI access is already being gate-kept and prices are increasing because its losing big $