milagemayvary

If you haven't heard, data centers are LOUD.

That's the thing though, they are mostly LOUD in frequencies inaudible to the human ear.

Low frequencies also travel much further have high penetration so putting walls between the data center doesn't help much.

With data centers cropping up all over the US, they sometimes get plopped down near neighborhoods.

What could POSSIBLY go wrong?

#datacenter #datacenters #ai #openai #anthropic #google #amazon #facebook #microsoft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo

Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

YouTube
Mar 25 at 7:18pmWeb
Show threadLats (314 ppm)15h ago
@milagemayvary sounds like the discredited wind turbine infra noise theory. It can’t be measured and it seems only to affect people who don’t like wind turbines.
Show threadmilagemayvary14h ago

@Lats

I thought most wind turbines operate around 32 db & some data centers in the US via EPA recommendations target 54 db but can get up to 96 db?

That seems like on the wind turbine end it's making the same noise between a whisper up to normal conversation levels.

The data center starts at the high end of conversation levels & can end up to almost as loud as a jack hammer.

It could be phycosomatic but at 96 db I doubt it's not just going to be only in your head.

Show threadWallOffTrump13h ago
@milagemayvary
I bet their noise pollution is much worse than windmills - and the noise is still less deadly than their carbon pollution and less destructive than their giant water theft.
Show threadmilagemayvary13h ago

@davidarnell

I do not doubt that.

The pulling water out of the drinking supply bit is also pretty nasty due to the additives they use to cool down mainframes requires intense amounts of energy to scrub & become potable water again.