The cost of AI infrastructure doesn't stop at your data. Sometimes it shows up in the water. I want to be very precise about what happened here, because this story is strong enough on its own facts. It doesn't need exaggeration, and honestly, exaggerating it would do the story a disservice. In Cheyenne, Wyoming, a Meta-affiliated data center company called Goat Systems LLC discharged wastewater into the city's municipal system that tested positive for a rare bacterium called