By Danielle
Residents of a small Georgia town are enraged after discovering an enormous new data center had used approximately 30 million gallons of water without initially paying for it.
Community members first noticed when their water pressure was unusually low.
Upon investigation, officials discovered two “industrial-scale water hookups” feeding the data center campus.
“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,” POLITICO reports.
POLITICO explained further:
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.