Company doing this:
Imperial Valley Computer Manufacturing — the owner of the 330 MW AI data center
Lawyer heading the project:
Sebastian Rucci
From a different article linked below:
Rucci has so far sued government officials, the local utility, an activist and a public television station over the dispute. Several of those legal claims have recently been dismissed.
Prior to joining the data center push in Southern California, Rucci was charged, though not convicted, of money laundering and promoting prostitution in relation to his former Ohio cabaret; he ended up serving 30 days in jail for selling beer without a license. Rucci was not charged in the rehab center case, which prosecutors said focused on Medicaid billing issues.
“Just give me my damn data center,” he told the Journal.
https://therealdeal.com/la/2026/07/21/southern-california-data-center-project-faces-opposition/
Honestly, if a little vigilante justice were to occur in this case (and, well, a lot of related cases), I would read the article about any such event with great enthusiasm and enjoyment, and it would absolutely make my day.
let’s not forget how the additives they add to the water to make it “server compatible” basically poison it
What additives? If anything they want more pure water. Some systems use some part propylene glycol, but those are closed loop systems.
