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Amazon data center linked to cancer and miscarriages
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:27 pm
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:27 pm
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Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:31 pm to Barkbowwow
Just clumps of cells according to Amazon.
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:32 pm to Barkbowwow
This post was edited on 11/30/25 at 9:36 pm
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:34 pm to Barkbowwow
It is truly amazing that as soon as something becomes successful it is found to be cancer causing!
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:51 pm to StrangeBrew
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It is truly amazing that as soon as something becomes successful it is found to be cancer causing!
It is truly amazing that as soon as something becomes successful and is found to be cancer causing, we will do whatever it takes to maintain the status quo.
Soon, there will be a cancer center to "manage" it and Bezos or Zuckerberg will be named Chairman of the American Cancer Society.
No worries.
This post was edited on 12/1/25 at 8:18 am
Posted on 11/30/25 at 9:52 pm to Barkbowwow
Small price to pay for free shipping and rings of power!
Posted on 11/30/25 at 10:01 pm to Barkbowwow
I will say it wasn't the data centers since it's Flint, Michigan and Flint, Michigan is known cancer.
Posted on 11/30/25 at 10:09 pm to Barkbowwow
This is why I'm against loosening EPA regulations
Posted on 11/30/25 at 11:02 pm to Barkbowwow
A bot account posting about an activist’s article in a pseudo-journal sure can get some of you to bite down hard on that treble hook.
Posted on 11/30/25 at 11:56 pm to Barkbowwow
How is that even possible? It’s just a bunch of computers.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:15 am to Barkbowwow
If you read the article it’s not solely the data centers. It’s the data centers mixed with the toxins that get in the water from farming practices.
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Basically, the allegations go like this: industrial megafarms operating in the area are responsible for churning out millions of gallons of wastewater, laden with nitrates from fertilizers. All that waste has to go somewhere, which is one way of saying it mostly ends up in the ground. Amazon’s hulking data center, thirsty for water to cool its blazing hot computer chips, supercharged this process, adding millions of gallons of wastewater a year to the heavy volume of farm runoff, which Morrow County was already struggling to keep up with. Soon even the deepest reaches of the local aquifer were tainted, according to RS, as huge volumes of data center and agricultural wastewater saturated the water
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:19 am to Barkbowwow
But I’ve seen the META commercials. They’re supposed to save rural American farming towns and Friday night football!
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:30 am to StrangeBrew
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It is truly amazing that as soon as something becomes successful it is found to be cancer causing!
Data centers have been around for decades. It seems the issue in this case is industrial farms pumping out nitrates, not datacenters.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:54 am to IMSA_Fan
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If you read the article it’s not solely the data centers. It’s the data centers mixed with the toxins that get in the water from farming practices.
I read the article and -maybe I need to re-read it after I finish my coffee- I don't see how the data centers are causing this, at least not from the story.
The problem is coming from the nitrate concentration in the aquifer being too high. The nitrates come from farmers fertilizing their fields.
The article doesn't elaborate on how the data center is responsible for the excess nitrates getting into the aquifer but somehow it's the data center's fault.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 5:57 am to Barkbowwow
Great. Louisiana expanded our Cancer Alley footprint.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:00 am to Pax Regis
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How is that even possible? It’s just a bunch of computers.
It’s probably not possible, and it is almost certainly a coincidence. Data centers are fairly benign. There are no weird chemicals. It’s just a lot of electrical power and fiber optics. It’s not causing cancer.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 6:19 am to Barkbowwow
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violated the federal limit for nitrates in drinking water.
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industrial megafarms operating in the area are responsible for churning out millions of gallons of wastewater, laden with nitrates from fertilizers.
Doh!
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had his voice box taken out because of a cancer that only smokers get
Yeah...no.
Click bait bullshite article.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 8:13 am to Powerman
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EPA regulations
It actually what causes this.
There is a ban on once through cooling tower water. This means the nitrates concentrate in the cooling tower after the several rounds of recirculation with losses mostly coming from evaporation which leave the nitrates behind. The relatively small blowdown from the cooling tower will be packed full of nitrates, much higher than drinking water limits would allow. Nitrates are probably not part of the cooling tower discharge limits because this process does not create the nitrates in the first place.
The ban for once through is not stupid because it uses enormous amounts of water, but recirculation is what is causing this.
Amazon might never have tried to "once through" but the less they recirculate/higher blowdown, the lower the nitrate concentration will be. It will tax the water supply though.
Posted on 12/1/25 at 9:01 am to Barkbowwow
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The historical precedent here is Flint, Michigan."
Didn’t read a single word after that sentence after the headline.
People….. don’t download the programming.
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