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I can't live in my home with half of my
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home functioning and no water and I
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can't drink the water.
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Just 400 meters away from Beverly
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Morris's home in rural Georgia, Meta,
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Instagram and Facebook's parent company
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has built a giant data center. A private
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well is Beverly's only source of water.
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But since construction began on the data
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center, the well water has turned murky.
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The sediment you see, that's from her
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taps, and she says it wasn't there
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before. The water won't come through the
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water lines to fill the toilet tank, so
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I have to fill it with a bucket of
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water. It's plugged with sediment.
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Beverly believes the construction is to
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blame. But Meta denies this.
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No one should have to be afraid to drink
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their water. Not in this day. Not in
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Meta says it commissioned an independent
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study that found its data center
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operation had not adversely affected
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groundwater conditions in the area. But
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Beverly just isn't convinced.
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Meta is a $1 trillion dollar industry
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and they're huge. To me, to me, it's
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like David and Goliath.
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Data centers like this are being built
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around the world, especially in Georgia,
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one of the fastest growing data center
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hubs in the US. They power AI tools like
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chat GPT and require a lot of water to
