The company commissioned an independent groundwater study to investigate Morris's concerns. According to the report, its data center operation did "not adversely affect groundwater conditions in the area".

I’ve lived with well water. You must filter it and test it regularly because it changes. It can also go dry.

Edit:

The article is also claiming humid areas are good for evaporative cooling, which is incorrect.

Also that above ground runoff is affecting a well is hard to believe. Wells are deep enough that natural filtration removes any sediment.

The whole article is questionable.

They have no laws to protect their water?

Or is this one of the things that Trump/Musk have destroyed?

I have to filter the local water too because it's very hard and tastes like crap. Hilariously the filter will eventually start to grow algae

I have to filter the local water too because it's very hard and tastes like crap. Hilariously the filter will eventually start to grow algae

algae isn't about water quality, but sun. You either don't change your filter frequently or your place has a nice exposure to sun (or both, of course)

But combine that with someone dumping thousands of gallons of wastewater into the ground basically across the street and weirder things are going to happen.

"Our goal is that by 2030, we'll be putting more water back into the watersheds and communities where we're operating data centres, than we're taking out," says Will Hewes, global water stewardship lead at Amazon Web Services (AWS), which runs more data centres than any other company globally.

How can this possibly make sense? Mine owner says, "by 2030 we'll be putting more gold into the ground than we're taking out!" I can only assume this is some carbon credits style of nonsense.

In the article, this isn’t about pollution but sediment from very nearby construction. Yeah, that happens. Kind of why most decent municipal governments plan out stuff so you don’t have people on wells right next to giant buildings. The common exception being gravel quarries, they do regularly disrupt locals wells. This is on them. You should be building data centres in light industrial zones where everyone nearby is on city water.

Both of my parents assisted the BBC with this article. Super proud of their ongoing efforts to fight against data centers.

It's really sad how local town councils are selling out their citizens for perceived personal gain, capitulating to companies who could easily afford to create their own infrastructure to support these facilities, but refuse to do so because of greed. trump admin will only embolden them through easing regulations and removing all accountability for the impacts they have.

I can’t find evidence that datacenters dump water into the ground.

The article is also claiming humid areas are good for evaporative cooling, which is incorrect.

Also that above ground runoff is affecting a well is hard to believe. Wells are deep enough that natural filtration removes any sediment.

The whole article is questionable.