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Elle Teale's avatar

Omg this is so frightening. Why in the h*** with the fine for a large corporation be just $500?! That needs to change. Thank you so much for breaking down these facts!

Marcia Miller's avatar

thank you so much for this. I am forwarding on to my City Council members because we are hot and heavy with data centers here in the Columbus Ohio area.

Lindsay Dahl's avatar

Not ok, two of my least favorite things: Data Centers and PFAS

Erin Brockovich's avatar

Yep! Bad, bad not good.

Greeley Miklashek, MD's avatar

Many thanks for this reporting, Erin. However, you did not mention the waste heat production of the Data Centers, the average electricity useage on which is 50MW. We have over 5,000 of these monsters in the US. At the very time in earth's history when the world is obviously suffering from the ultimate environmental effects of fossil fuel burning, which can be seen in 1.2T tons of melting global ice and the 321 M cubic miles of heating oceans, the very last thing we need is more waste heat producing tech.

Erin Brockovich's avatar

This one is about PFAS. More stories to come!

KD Honaker's avatar

Thanks For fighting the good fight. We need help in WV.