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Residents of Morgan County, Georgia reported muddy brown water from their taps near Meta's data center operations. On May 20, 2026, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held up jars of the contaminated water at a House Energy and Commerce hearing, and the EPA pledged an immediate investigation. Meta points to a groundwater study it commissioned that found no connection.
“Residents of Morgan County, Georgia reported muddy brown water from their taps near Meta's data center operations. On May 20, 2026, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held up jars of the contaminated water at a House Energy and Commerce hearing, and the EPA pledged an immediate investigation. Meta points to a groundwater study it commissioned that found no connection.”
In Morgan County, Georgia, residents living near Meta's data center operations began pulling murky, brown water from their taps. The complaints were dismissed until the jars showed up in Washington.
At a May 20, 2026 hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez held up two jars of water drawn from Morgan County homes. They were visibly contaminated — murky and brown. The EPA's Assistant Administrator for Water pledged an immediate investigation on the spot.
Hyperscale data centers like those run by Meta, Google, and Microsoft consume between 1 and 5 million gallons of water per day for cooling. When that demand lands on a rural county's aquifer, the strain is not abstract — it shows up in the pressure, the sediment, and the color of what comes out of the faucet. Residents connected the timeline of their water problems to the facility's construction and operation.
Meta's response has been to point to a third-party groundwater study the company itself commissioned, which concluded there was no connection between its data center operations and the well-water issues. That is the familiar shape of these disputes: the affected community sees the timeline, the company commissions the study, and the regulator arrives only after the water is already brown. The EPA investigation is now underway.
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