Meta's AI Build Poisoned Cheyenne's Water Through a Shell Called Goat Systems

Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities traced Cupriavidus gilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium, to wastewater discharged during construction of Meta’s $800 million data center, and named the responsible entity as Goat Systems LLC, the shell Meta uses to build the campus. Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging wastewater carrying the bacterium that interfered with the city’s water reclamation facilities, and it is the corporate entity Meta uses for construction of the roughly 800,000-square-foot campus known as Project Cosmo. The city took its reuse water network offline while staff spent two months draining and disinfecting the system and a pond. A councilman called learning Meta was the source unwelcome news, which is the polite way to say a trillion-dollar company hid behind a barnyard alias while the town scrubbed its pipes. Read the Cowboy State Daily report on the contamination.