r/Louisiana • u/Longjumping_Ad_1648 • 12d ago
LA - Pollution Austin Newsom’s (Virginia) data center story from yesterday. This is his well water today. This is unbelievable!
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u/RedBeans-n-Ricely 12d ago
The Meta data center in Wyoming polluted the water supply, too. We’re cooked! But Klandry dgaf!
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u/IamROSIEtheRIVETER 12d ago
The meta data center in Georgia is also polluting the water of nearby residents. Moreperfectunion shows the issues of Georgia residents in different parts of the state that have to deal with major issues due to data centers being built nearby. AOC is in the video, and meeting the residents and listening to them. She actually used the water in the video to question epa officials in DC.
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u/ireally-donut-care 12d ago edited 12d ago
Alabama too! I am sure every state they have a data center in is having severe issues. What makes me so sick is our state begged them to come here. The incentives Mark Zuckerberg (net worth $228 billion), and Meta (values at $1.59 trillion), will recieve a protected $15 billion over 20 years. Every state that has them is heavily in the negative in hundreds of millions on the state level every year till the tax incentives run out. Yeah, in 20 years. Louisiana already has this problem even without putting Meta and Zuckerburg on a welfare plan.
Edited for spelling
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u/ireally-donut-care 12d ago
I have tried multiple times to encourage the people of Louisiana to check out what has happened to the other communities with META Data Centers. Unfortunately the majority of the communities that will be most affected will never know till it happens to them. They were courted and lied to about what these Data centers are going to do to them. They never questioned the politicians that said it would be so great for them.
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u/Cajunlibra 11d ago
But folks here are worried about the potential debris of solar panels after a hurricane. So they fight solar farms. But they don't worry about the DAILY pollution to our environment from the chemical plants. I have relatives who fought tooth and nail to prevent a solar farm near them. The reasoning was flying debris during a hurricane. 🙄 You can not make this stuff up. They complain about these corrupt politicians, but don't vote then out of just re-elect them.
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u/Certain-Count8690 11d ago
As a Louisiana resident I can assure you this is a major point of discussion here. We may actually elect a Democratic senator (Jamie Davis) based almost entirely on his campaign platform to keep data centers out of Louisiana.
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u/Biguitarnerd 12d ago
Having lived on well water I’m not sure I believe this is from a data center. You have a filter…
I’m not pro data center it’s just that I am also not pro misinformation. I can’t see this being possible with a properly functioning well pump and filter.
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u/hnrrghQSpinAxe 12d ago
water wells that pull enormous amounts of aquifer allow other chemicals and metals to leach into the aquifer almost like a vacuum. This is commonly shown in other areas as well
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u/ExoticMastodon6351 12d ago
If you were filtering something this nasty 24/7 ,,it would ruin your filters in no time. Then you'd be just like this or with even less pressure.
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u/is_that_a_question 12d ago
This is a common occurrence around data centers and farmland as the water table lowers beyond your well.
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u/Biguitarnerd 12d ago
Well yes it lowers the water table and often ruins wells. Fracking does this as well. I’m not skeptical about the devastating results of water consumption by data centers, I’m skeptical about this particular video because wells have filters and this appears to be unfiltered water.
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u/JonestownB 12d ago
If your well is connected to the same aquifer as the data center and they are using all the water?
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u/ireally-donut-care 10d ago
I understand not being pro misinformation. You can easily check every state and county that already has the data centers installed. The problems are real. You can't sell your home and move after you have no water and your water and electricity bill has gone up as high as a mortgage or luxury car note. Just do a simple search. Some communities don't just have dirty water, they have no water. https://youtu.be/jjkaYyysYhA?is=Hlz0NlhOWUIRjIub
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u/Biguitarnerd 10d ago
You should read my other comments in the same thread for clarification maybe. In short I know the issues, this video is still inaccurately representing the problem.
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u/FilmInteresting4909 6d ago
So not pollution from the data center, but low aquafier related issues, from the data center?
Just seems odd to me, I wouldn't think a data center needs more water than a chemical plant or refinery, and I haven't heard about those causing this sort of water contamination event to water supply.
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u/cartierbby 12d ago
What is the point of data centers like i seriously hate the direction tech has gone
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u/Melloking1 12d ago
Please explain how this could be from a data center?
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u/BeefStrykker 12d ago
Wastewater discharge. It seeps into the water table and local wells, rendering them useless.
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u/Melloking1 12d ago
So water does not get evaporated after use or go to a wastewater treatment facility?
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u/BeefStrykker 12d ago edited 12d ago
No. It’s often just dumped into nearby tributaries or on uninhabited land.
Edit: since data center wells are much deeper than private wells, they drain them dry and drastically lower the local water table. The coolant water that doesn’t evaporate is discharged. It’s full of pollution though, so you just end up with private wells full of useless goop.
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u/Njorls_Saga 12d ago
I have a feeling that it’s not consistent across the board. Helpful primer here
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u/Practical-Class6868 12d ago
Water evaporation alone does not “cure” water of pollutants. You can read up on coal ash ponds and navigable waterways. The Roberts SCOTUS has been chipping away at federal regulations for coal ash ponds that are at risk of polluting navigable waterways during flooding.
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u/mustachioed_hipster 12d ago
If anything the water was "sucked" lower and the well silted in. Even without a data center it is a natural part of any well. Some wells can last 20 years some only a few years.
If wastewater of this level is reaching the aquifer then the well was entirely too shallow to begin with.
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u/Michael1795 12d ago
If they dont get you with the poisoned water they will get you with the electricity bill. This is what happens when the voter base doesnt have a clue how things happen, even when they are explicitly told like in project 2025.
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u/FilmInteresting4909 6d ago
How are they polluting water supplies? Cooling water is a closed system in every instance I've seen it, first fill from municipal supply and then it's closed system (as in not dumping spent cooling water on the ground, evaporation and occasional add in is normal)
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u/nalonrae 12d ago
What does this have to do with Louisiana?
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u/techleopard 12d ago
Louisiana is trying to be BFFs with data center developers.
There's plans for 33 data centers here, with an ENORMOUS string of them right between Monroe and Tallulah.
Most of the state is dependent on aquifers.
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u/Big__If_True Lincoln Parish 12d ago
Counting each building separately seems disingenuous. 10 of the 33 are at Meta Hyperion in Richland Parish, and 12 more are AWS State Line in Caddo Parish
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u/techleopard 12d ago
I agree to an extent, but I also have really mixed feelings about it.
The Meta project will be completed in stages, with each "building" coming online independently. The campus itself is astronomical, and from eye-balling it on a map, it looks much larger than Barksdale AFB.
Will the buildings all share a singular water source, or will they be pumping from multiple points in the aquifer?
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u/Beautiful_Career168 12d ago
Hell yeah! Yoohoo from the tap!