Meta Contractor Contaminated Cheyenne's Water, City Says
Testing in late June cleared the Dry Creek and Crow Creek facilities after months of disinfection and wastewater restrictions, officials said.
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Deadly bacteria found in major US city’s water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg’s $800m data center
Deadly bacteria found in major US city’s water system traced to Mark Zuckerberg’s $800m data center | 8 July 2026 | Meta’s massive AI data center in Wyoming is facing scrutiny after an unexpected contamination incident emerged during construction. The Mark Zuckerberg-owned company is developing a 715,000sq ft campus in Cheyenne that is set to go online next year, but its contractor has come under fire after city officials traced wastewater conta…
Meta contractor contaminated Cheyenne's water, city says
A Meta contractor flushed a rare, potentially deadly bacterium into Cheyenne’s wastewater system. The Wyoming city has now suspended all data centre discharge, a fresh flashpoint in the fight over AI’s thirst for water. Officials in Cheyenne, Wyoming, have stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data centres. The trigger was a contractor building Meta’s new AI […] This story continues at The Next Web
After bacteria had been detected in a water sample of a US-Klarärwerk, the authorities were able to trace their origin back to a new meta-data centre.
Meta AI Data Center Caught Pumping Deadly Bacteria into Town Water Supply
In this Slay News article, Frank Bergman reports that Meta’s AI data center in Cheyenne, Wyoming, was caught discharging a rare and deadly multidrug-resistant bacterium, Cupriavidus gilardii, into the local wastewater system, prompting officials to ban wastewater discharge from all data centers. The bacterium, linked to 10 deaths (including immunocompromised children) with a 31.3% mortality...
Wyoming traced a rare bacterium to Meta campus wastewater, putting its reuse system offline
A rare bacterium found in Cheyenne's reclaimed water system led to a shutdown that lasted months after officials connected it to wastewater from construction at Meta's Wyoming data center campus. The incident is drawing attention to a lesser-known part of high-tech cooling systems: the water used before those systems are fully sealed and operational. What happened? As Cowboy State Daily reported, the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities halted ind…
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