Waterkeeper Alliance counts 55 affiliated groups on datacenter issues, 80 percent focused on wastewater; Virginia citations, West Virginia stormwater floods, a planned Flint Riverkeeper suit against QTS in Fayetteville, Georgia, and Lake Seneca heated-discharge fights show the same enforcement pattern.
The water flashpoints are hardening nationally: a Fayetteville, Georgia project drew nearly 30 million gallons through improperly tracked hookups during drought, and a proposed Imperial County, California campus would pull 260 million gallons a year from the Colorado River.
QTS's Fayetteville campus consumed roughly 29 million gallons through two unmetered industrial hookups while Governor Kemp's emergency declaration had residents on conservation orders.