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Georgians outraged after data center drains 30M gallons of water amid drought conditions: report

New York Post·Taylor Herzlich·6 months ago
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Residents of a suburban Georgia town are furious after they discovered a massive new data center had guzzled up 30 million gallons of water without initially paying for it – leaving members of the populace with weak water pressure during a drought.

Georgians living in Annelise Park, a mansion-packed neighborhood in Fayetteville, which has a roughly 20,000 population, noticed last year that their water pressure was unusually weak, according to a Politico report .

A county investigation found a nearby 6.6 million-square-foot data center project by Quality Technology Services, a Blackstone-owned developer, was to blame, according to the publication.

A sunken boat is exposed by receding water levels on Lake Lanier in Georgia as the state suffers from droughts.…

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