Benn Jordan leveraged his expertise in audio engineering to investigate this phenomenon. Do watch.
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The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it's noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Depending on if it's noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Boy, it's almost like those are meant to protect something and someone else... Hm... 🤔
Just tax the fucking things already. Fuck tax breaks and kick out any administrators who take the bribes and go against the wishes of their constituents.
Woah woah woah, let's not get hasty. I say we dismember the administrators for taking bribes. Why just kick them out?
Why wouldn’t you do that to the board of directors of the companies bribing the officials? When removing weeds you need to pull out the roots.
Have a number of big fans run at almost the same frequency, and you get an onslaught of waves at the differences of those frequencies.
As they are all nearly the same speed/frequency, the differences will be infrasound, which causes a lot of odd effects on people, like anxiety.
So basically the data centers could alleviate their sound problems by having all their fans run at opposite frequencies to cancel our the sound through deconstructive interference
And do something that's good for people at virtually no expense? Haha, no.
Or soundproof the building.
Isn't it really difficult to soundproof against the low frequency noises?
Yeah, but do you know what's super useful? Molotov cocktails.
Not sure how effective that would be unless you were able to get inside the building and could strategically deliver them.
What you really need is a drone that can drop thermite, then lower a small EMP device into the hole.
The same argument is used by opponents of wind energy - Infrasound is having bad effects on their health. People do say that while living next to roads that are producing infrasound multiple times louder than wind turbines ever could.
It's a nice argument if you need it.
There's documented proof of this being measured by multiple people.
A windmill is literally only a visual blight.
we’ve had data centres for 40 years how did this only recently come up in America?
Ngl didn’t read the article
So they build them cheaply and doing everything in their power to avoid regulations. We really need the government to come in and shut these down given all the harm they cause to their local environment.
A government worried about the environment... That usually only happens in times of mass outrage, chances of which might decrease over time by modern propaganda communication strategies.
Yeah. People don't understand why I'm not anti-datacenter (let me finish before you dog-pile me). Datacenters are very efficient ways to house lots of compute. Power, HVAC, and staffing all benefit from economies of scale. Most of our modern life is highly depent on datacenters, including application specific AI tools (not LLMs, but like medical imaging analysis tools) that will have positive effects on humanity. I do have problems with datacenters that are going up quickly and cheaply, with lax standards for air, water, sound and light pollution, and power subsidized by the surrounding homes, in order to ride the front of this very unstable AI bubble.
Before you ask, I did sign the petition to limit datacenters in my state. I'd sign one to limit new datacenter construction nation-wide. Datacenters are essential to modern life, which is exactly why we should have a higher standard for how they are constructed. I'm not anti-data center, but I am anti-whatever-the-fuck-this-is.
We really need the government to come in and shut these down given all the harm they cause to their local environment
But the government is helping pave the way for it.
There is insane amount of impact on health that I was not aware possible until this past 2 years. I can see countries using it as a weapon if they tune it.
I'm surprised the 49ers haven't already built a data center right next to their stadium.

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