{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-demands-answers-meta-over-data-center-water-contamination", "Hageman Demands Answers from Meta Over Data Center Water Contamination", "2026-07-09", "2026", "2026-07", "Republican", "House", "WY", "Harriet M. Hageman", "H001096", "hageman.house.gov", "hageman", "https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases", "scraper", "Washington, D.C. \u2013 Congresswoman Harriet Hageman (R-WY) is seeking answers on the contamination of Cheyenne\u2019s water system by Meta\u2019s data center.\n\nIn March, the Cheyenne Board of Public Utilities revoked industrial discharge privileges for the data center\u2019s contractor, Goat Systems, following the discovery of the bacterium Cupriavidus gilardii in the wastewater system. The discharge of this rare bacterium into water supplies has led to months of cleanup and taken Cheyenne\u2019s reuse water system offline. Concerningly, Cheyenne residents were not made aware of the contamination until the end of June, nor was Meta identified as the polluter until July.\n\nWhile local utility officials have stressed the bacteria presented no threat to residential drinking water, the contamination has raised serious concerns about data center construction throughout the region. Rep. Hageman sent a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg demanding answers around the discharge of Cupriavidus gilardii into Cheyenne\u2019s municipal reuse water system by the tech giant\u2019s $800 million data center.\n\n\u201cWyoming residents have the right to be informed as soon as contaminations occur to make informed decisions surrounding their own health and safety. Water is a precious resource in our state, so it is of immense concern to learn the system marketed to reduce a data center\u2019s water consumption caused this contamination,\u201d said Rep. Harriet Hageman. \u201cResidents deserve to know\n\ntheir water remains safe as the tech industry attempts to expand the data center footprint in Wyoming.\u201d", 1, "2026-07-10T08:20:04Z", "2026-07-10T08:21:18Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://hageman.house.gov/media/press-releases/hageman-demands-answers-meta-over-data-center-water-contamination"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.6826740466058254, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}