Quality Technology Services faces backlash over 30 million gallons of water use amid Georgia drought

The post Quality Technology Services used 30 million gallons of water without payment in Georgia appeared on BitcoinEthereumNews.com. While residents of Fayette County, Georgia were being told to conserve water during a state-declared drought emergency, a massive data center next door was gulping down nearly 30 million gallons of the stuff without a working meter, and without paying a dime. The facility in question belongs to Quality Technology Services, better known as QTS, which is owned by private equity giant Blackstone. The company’s Project Excalibur development consumed an estimated 29 to 30 million gallons of unmetered water over a 15-month construction period. When the county finally caught the issue and ran the numbers, QTS owed a grand total of $147,474 in retroactive charges. That works out to roughly $0.005 per gallon, a rate significantly lower than what local residents pay for their own water. A metering failure during a drought The oversight wasn’t malicious hacking or

The incident highlights the need for robust infrastructure oversight, especially as data centers expand, to prevent resource mismanagement. The post Quality Technology Services used 30 million gallons of water without payment in Georgia appeared first on Crypto Briefing.

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