Meta’s AI campus flushed a rare bacterium into Cheyenne’s water. The city hit back
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A rare bacterium from an AI data center triggering a halt to all industrial wastewater in Cheyenne shows how quickly local regulators can clamp down when something goes wrong. If you’re building or running AI infra, water handling and community relations now sit alongside power as board-level risks, not back-office issues.
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