Everyone's mind is on electricity right now. Don't forget the cooling system.

All that water has to go somewhere and porky loves to make polluted water and chemical waste "not his problem" by exiting his wastewater on public land. Probably on a riverbank or the side of a gully.

Merry pranksters day dream about finding a way to get in and do some work during construction, contributing their labour subtly enough that the modifications pass testing but fail catastrophically later, long after the hero has vanished to laugh online.

The odds of someone being lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time with the right set of skills and tools are pretty slim though.

Apparently what these jonklers do instead that gives them way more room to breathe and time to plan is they find the pollution pipe outlets and follow them as deep as they can safely and reasonably go and then they start building with whatever materials they're comfortable with. Often a wooden dam and some concrete, but depending on skillz and circumstance apparently there was/is at least one person who likes to weld them shut. (Apparently experienced pipe smokers don't usually like to use found materials from the area as that tends to leave telltale signs that will later lead a survey crew directly to the pipe.)

One profitable factory that had been dumping chems into critical waterways had their entire site shut down FOREVER because they couldn't find the blockage. Many many millions of dollars of sunk capital locked up on a site that I imagine would have been very hard to sell to anyone if it ever did. They didn't even depend on moving water to stop the most valuable on-premises assets from cooking instantly.

None of this is original thought, except realising the significance of pipe plugging for hot running data centers. Chapter 3 of the Ecodefense Monkeywrenching manual has some pages on pipe plugging which is why I feel so qualified to write this post.

BUT if you ever see someone like a friend or even just another human soul planning to go fucking around in stormwater drains and other pipes, make sure they understand that YOU MIGHT DROWN SUDDENLY. Make sure they do a lot of very thorough research and lots of due diligence and observation to record the times during the day and/or night when waste tanks are emptied and keep a real good eye on the weather. Flash floods kill urbexers and cavers all the time. Rain that lands "upstream" can find its way to you without warning if you're unlucky so if you know anyone silly enough try do real life tunnelmaxxing make sure they are capable of very methodical planning and lots of patience.

The good news is the book I mentioned has waaay more info about how to maximize your chances of living a long life of liberty while becoming a reasonably advanced persistent threat to high dollar assets in your preferred areas of buffoonery.

The even better news is that nobody gives a fuuuuck about the pipes! This is a major fucking freebie waiting to be taken. Nobody's patrolling that shit.

Remote surveillance is likely to be an issue which is why one might develop a keen interest in bird watching so they can get in there and have a reeeeal thorough look around. It's 2026 so a really paranoid jester might think about getting a nerd to provide them with their own suite of gadgets and doohickeys to set up early warning perimeters so you can leave expeditiously if you're about to be interrupted by company men.

Don't let your friend get too cocky but although it would be hot and heavy and tiring work, it will often be low risk from a running into the opp's perspective. Like so low risk as to almost be zero when compared to the potential upside of hearing such a ridiculously loud laugh track.