Cheyenne Wastewater System Polluter Was a Data Center; City Temporarily Pausing Data Center Discharges

Cheyenne wastewater system polluter was a data center; city temporarily pausing data center discharges

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The industrial user that the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities revoked sewer privileges from following a systemwide contamination of the city’s wastewater reclamation network was Goat Systems, a data center company building an 800,000-square-foot campus in Cheyenne. The BOPU announced June 26 that the city’s wastewater reuse system would officially turn on for the year at the end of the month after Cupriavidus gilardii, a bacte…

Cheyenne Won’t Take Data Center Wastewater After Meta Contractor Contaminated System

Cheyenne announced Thursday it's suspended taking wastewater associated with data center systems after a Meta contractor contaminated the city’s…

Meta data center water discharges suspended after contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in Cheyenne’s water system

The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to Goat Systems LLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-…

Meta-linked contamination pushed Cheyenne to suspend data center wastewater

Cheyenne suspended some data center wastewater after BOPU cited Goat Systems over contamination tied to Meta’s data center.

BOPU: Cheyenne wastewater system polluter was a data center; city temporarily pausing data center discharges

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — The industrial user that the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities revoked sewer privileges from following a systemwide contamination of the city’s wastewater reclamation network was Goat Systems, a data center company building an 800,000-square-foot campus in Cheyenne. The BOPU announced June 26 that the city’s wastewater reuse system would officially turn on for the year at the end of the month after Cupriavidus gilardii, a bacte…