Outrage started bubbling up last year when residents of an affluent subdivision named Annelise Park in Fayetteville, Georgia, noticed their water pressure was unusually low.
When the county utility investigated, officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.
All told, the developer, Quality Technology Services, owed nearly $150,000 for using more than 29 million gallons of unaccounted-for water. That is equivalent to 44 Olympic-size swimming pools and far exceeds the peak limit agreed to during the data center planning process.
If s person stole 150k on valuable items goes straight to jail. A corporation, they just let it do it.
It really depends on if that person could afford a good lawyer or an exit plan to somewhere without an extradition treaty.
No way that corporation install a main line hookup without the water department knowing. Should know work in that field. Either city lying and the purposely allowed them to do this, or the workers for the water department were bribed and help do this.
You know, we’re propagandized to see the poor as leeches but these billionaire broligarchs are the true leeches. They’ll steal your water and hop on your electrical grid and push the limit on what they can get away with… while lobbying for the avg Joe/Jane to subsidize them.
I think all it would take is a few of these CEOs to be hoisted high and quartered with towing winches on livestream for them to reconsider these data centers
Will they shut the data center down? Fine the people who did this out of business? Will there be any negative consequences for their behavior? Nope. Pretty much every state in the world is run by the mob 🥱
certainly all capitalist states are
I’ve had enough bad experiences with most of them.
