If the story was like, “water was polluted with waste chemicals produced during data center construction,” I think I could see more of a connection.
Since a cooling system is supposed to start off pretty darn clean and has a pretty clean construction process this is ironically exactly the kind of water you'd want to just run off but can't because the law.
* edit: I honestly didn't even bother to dig out the name of the bacteria because I figured it wasn't there or wrong and I'll make the chatbot struggle through it later.
rcpt•28m ago