Cheyenne’s Board of Public Utilities isn’t accepting industrial wastewater associated with data center systems until further notice after a contractor for Meta Platforms contaminated the city’s wastewater system, prompting months of cleanup. The announcement was made by the Board of Public Utilities (BOPU) on Thursday in conjunction with naming the Meta company as the source of the initial contamination. It also comes more than four months after the Meta company — which is building a huge $800 million data center in south Cheyenne — disrupted the city’s reclaimed wastewater system with a rare bacterial contaminant. Goat Systems LLC was in “significant noncompliance” with the city’s industrial pretreatment regulations after discharging wastewater contaminated with Cupriavidus gilardii.

Other data center water use news:

• ABC4 (Salt Lake City): After Cheyenne wastewater was contaminated, researcher raises concerns about runoff from data centers
• FOX5 (Las Vegas): FOX5 Investigates: Nevada data center boom strains energy, water, and land resources
• KOAT (Albuquerque, N.M.): Democratic New Mexico lawmakers propose moratorium on large-scale data centers