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#Wyoming - #Meta #Datacenter water discharges suspended after #contaminating the city's reclamation water supply with [ #AntibioticResistant ] #bacterium — system offline for months for cleaning, closed-loop cooling system purge spread rare metal-resistant bacteria in #Cheyenne’s water system
The city has revoked the Meta contractor's discharge privileges.
By Luke James
July 4, 2026"The Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities has stopped accepting industrial wastewater from data center fill-and-flush and closed-loop cooling operations after tracing a rare bacterium in the city's reclaimed water to #GoatSystemsLLC, the entity Meta uses to build its Cheyenne campus. In a notice reported by Cowboy State Daily, the Board said Goat Systems was in significant noncompliance for discharging water carrying #CupriavidusGilardii, a metal-resistant bacterium that interfered with two water reclamation plants and pushed the reuse system offline for months of cleanup. The Board revoked the contractor's fill-and-flush discharge privileges on March 24, and a wider suspension now covers every data center connected to city services.
"#FillAndFlush is a commissioning step in which crews fill a cooling loop's piping with water, flush it to clear debris before the system is run, and then send the used water to drain. Goat Systems routed that flush water, which contained Cupriavidus gilardii, into Cheyenne's sanitary sewer, Frank Strong, the Board's engineering and water resource division manager, told the Wyoming Tribune Eagle. Strong said the fill water had been purchased from the Board itself and that the origin of the bacterium remains unknown, but said that lab staff caught it in February during routine fecal-bacteria sampling. 'This isn't something we normally test for,' Strong told the paper.
"#Microsoft and #Nvidia market #SealedLiquidLoops as a near-#ZeroWater alternative to evaporative cooling, an approach that is spreading quickly as #AIDataCenters expand into more communities. Microsoft describes cooling systems that are filled once during construction and then recirculate the same water, while Nvidia's Rubin platform runs a coolant that is 75% water and 25% propylene glycol. That one-time fill, however, is the step that produces a discharge, and the flush water leaves the site before the loop is sealed.
"Strong went on to add that the Board's concern extends past the finding of the bacterium, because closed-loop systems can carry #glycol and other #chemicals that municipal treatment plants aren't built to process. #CheyenneWY sprays its reclaimed water on #parks, golf courses, and other #GreenSpaces, and the Board worried the bacterium could become an aerosol hazard during irrigation. Cupriavidus gilardii isn't a regulated contaminant, yet the discharge disrupted treatment sufficiently to trigger pass-through and interference findings under the Cheyenne City Code and federal pretreatment rules.
"Meta said that it's supporting its general contractor, #Fortis, which stopped discharging and began hauling wastewater offsite, and that independent testing found no trace of the substance. Testing at the #DryCreek and #CrowCreek facilities cleared in late June, and the reuse system is back online. Cheyenne City Councilman Pete Laybourn called the disclosure 'a very, very unpleasant surprise.' The Board hasn't said how the suspension affects other Cheyenne data centers still under construction."
#DataCenters #WaterIsLife #NoWaterForAI #BigDataLies #NoWaterForDatacenters
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Moringa recalls spotlight pathogen risks across botanical supply chains
Recent Salmonella outbreaks linked …
#dining #cooking #diet #food #Nutrition #bacterium #danger #dirty #epidemic #fullframe #horizontal #Illness #Infection #largegroupofanimals #magnifyingglass #microorganism #microbiology #nopeople #nutrition #risk #salmonellatyphimurium #salmonellosis #science #sem #studioshot
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#nopanic #donotpanic a #bacterium has become #smart at #evolution #randomize #dna game: it flags certain areas of it's #dna as "please envolve rapidly" #who #Acinetobacter #baumannii #biology
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"I’m surprised to see people get so wildly excited about a possible #bacterium 🦠 on #Mars 🔴 when our own planet is crawling with undiscovered species"
George Schaller, #mammalogist, #biologist, #conservationist and #author https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Mars
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A novel oral vaccine utilizing a modified, highly attenuated strain of the #bacterium #Listeria monocytogenes to prime the immune system within the gastrointestinal tract and generate a targeted anti-tumor response.
#Immunology #Oncology #Microbiology #Cancer #sflorg
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The common gut #bacterium Bacteroides fragilis is significantly more likely to be infected with specific viruses, known as bacteriophages, in patients diagnosed with #colorectal #cancer
#Oncology #Microbiology #Gastroenterology #sflorg
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#Escherichia albertii, initially identified as Hafnia alvei, by the commercial identification biochemical strip, API 20E, was isolated from an infant with diarrhea in Bangladesh in 1989. However, this #bacterium was later renamed as a novel species, E. albertii
#Microbiology #Veterinary #sflorg
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@DenisCOVIDinfoguy (Whooping Cough is the effect of fixed toxin from the infecting organism, Bordetela pertussis, which is a #bacterium, not a virus)
Good advice, minor correction.
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https://www.walknews.com/1040513/ Cultured quail, Brazil nuts and more #abstract #AnimalCell #artificial #awe #backgrounds #bacterium #biotechnology #Brazil #BuiltStructure #cell #CellCulture #circle #concepts #continuity #curve #dishware #disposable #equipment #flask #futuristic #HealthcareAndMedicine #HumanCell #HumanHand #ideas #laboratory #majestic #MedicineAndScience #nanotechnology #pattern #plastic #plate #ProtectiveGlove #research #Science #StemCell #Technology #vial #ブラジル
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https://www.wacoca.com/news/2635850/ Cultured quail, Brazil nuts and more #abstract #AnimalCell #Artificial #awe #backgrounds #bacterium #biotechnology #Brazil #BuiltStructure #cell #CellCulture #circle #concepts #continuity #curve #dishware #disposable #EQUIPMENT #flask #futuristic #HealthcareAndMedicine #HumanCell #HumanHand #ideas #Laboratory #Majestic #MedicineAndScience #nanotechnology #pattern #Plastic #plate #ProtectiveGlove #Research #science #StemCell #technology #vial #ブラジル
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More than a billion tons of #chitin are produced on Earth each year. This study shows that the soil #bacterium #Streptomyces venezuelae thrives on chitin from #insect #exoskeletons, using a potent mix of chitinases and a dedicated chitobiose importer @PLOSBiology https://plos.io/45sg4S5
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Ancient Killer Is Rapidly Becoming Resistant to #Antibiotics, Warns Study
Currently, antibiotics are the only way to effectively treat #typhoid, which is caused by the #bacterium #Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi (S Typhi). Yet over the past three decades, the bacterium's resistance to oral antibiotics has been growing and spreading.
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New #Bacteria Have Been Discovered on #China's #SpaceStation
On Earth there is no record of Niallia tiangongensis, a #bacterium found aboard the #Tiangong station that appears to be well adapted to conditions there.
It is unclear whether the newly discovered microbe evolved on the #space station or whether it is part of the vast sea of as yet unidentified microorganisms on Earth.
https://www.wired.com/story/bacteria-unknown-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/
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Scientists have discovered a previously unknown #bacterium aboard #China's Tiangong space station. "It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living in microgravity conditions," Chinese astronauts collected swab samples from the space station in May 2023, which were then frozen and sent back to #Earth for study
https://www.microbiologyresearch.org/content/journal/ijsem/10.1099/ijsem.0.006693
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New #Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a #Chinese Space Station
It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create #spores, and may have evolved to #survive hundreds of miles above our planet’s surface.
This #bacterium, never before seen on Earth, was detected on #China's #Tiangong #space station. It has been named Niallia tiangongensis, and it inhabited the cockpit controls on the station, living in #microgravity conditions.
https://www.wired.com/story/bacteria-unknown-on-earth-appears-on-chinese-space-station/
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The virus Solanov-8 was extracted from infected pig liver by Prof. Oscar Kim – Seoul Infectious Disease Institute – Seoul, South Korea
artpal.com/eddlestonian
#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#AIgenerated #digital #digitalcreator #digitalcreatorjourney
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
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The virus Pyrilom-10 was discovered by 56. Dr. Maxime Dubois – Quebec Environmental Systems – Quebec City, Canada
artpal.com/eddlestonian
#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#AIgenerated #digital #digitalcreator #digitalcreatorjourney
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
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The bacterium Rhamnivora-3 was first identified by Dr. Aksel Jensen – Oslo Microbial Research Institute – Oslo, Norway
artpal.com/eddlestonian
#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#AIgenerated #digital #digitalcreator #digitalcreatorjourney
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
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The virus Aerovex-22 identified by Dr. Nikolai Petrov – Petrov Research Institute – Moscow, Russia
artpal.com/eddlestonian
#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#AIgenerated #digital #digitalcreator #digitalcreatorjourney
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
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The bacterium Bactrionis L31 identified by Dr. Elara Voss – Voss Research Center – Zurich, Switzerland
#germ #microbe #microorganism #bacilli,
#bugs, #pathogen #virus #aerobe #ai #artificial
#anaerobe #organism #bacterium #bacteria
#disease #microorganism #bug #bacillus
#microscopic #organism #bacillus
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Scientists discover more #mitochondria-like #symbionts with surprising metabolic capacities https://phys.org/news/2024-12-scientists-mitochondria-symbionts-metabolic-capacities.html
Genetic potential for aerobic respiration and #denitrification in globally distributed respiratory #endosymbionts https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-54047-x
"They found a unique #bacterium that lives inside a ciliate (#protists) and provides it with energy... reminiscent of #mitochondria, with the key difference that the #endosymbiont derives energy from the respiration of nitrate, not oxygen."
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#Tuberculosis (TB) caused 1⃣.1⃣3⃣ to 1⃣.4⃣0⃣ million people to die in 2021/2022 (#GBDstudy, @WHO). This included 115,000 people who perished from #resistant strains of the #bacterium.
#GlobalHealth #GlobalGoals #SDGs #2030Agenda #UN #SDG3 #EndTuberculosis #EndTB
https://www.who.int/teams/global-tuberculosis-programme/tb-reports/global-tuberculosis-report-2023/tb-disease-burden/1-2-tb-mortality
https://www.healthdata.org/research-analysis/diseases-injuries-risks/factsheets/2021-tuberculosis-level-3-disease
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Researchers from the Cluster of #Excellence "Balance of the Microverse" at #UniJena have discovered a prokaryotic #bacterium that eats other cells. However, according to the current state of knowledge in #microbiology, this should only be possible for eukaryotes.
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#Flesheating #bacterium cases hit record high in #Japan https://www.bangkokpost.com/world/2808935/-flesh-eating-bacterium-cases-hit-record-high-in-japan
KYODO - #Streptococcal toxic #shock #syndrome, a potentially deadly disease caused by a "flesh-eating" bacterium, is spreading rapidly in Japan, with cases in the first half of this year already surpassing last year's record, a national infectious disease institute said Tuesday.
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This study characterizes a novel compact #Cas12a (EbCas12a) from an uncultured Erysipelotrichia #bacterium and develops an all-in-one #CRISPR delivery system whereby this EbCas12a can be packaged with its crRNA into a single AAV vector #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3UWqpjC
