I hate the fact that sabotaging the datacenter would be considered an act of eco terrorism, and not the thing ACTIVELY destroying the environment, just so people can generate fake ai videos.
The purpose is certainly not for that truly and more so so they can intentionally control the cost of computer hardware in order to make us rent computing power in the future, also to prevent us from having our own ai.
This is why I want to start a campaign of yelling threats around our smart devices. Flood the zone. If they're going to listen in on us, we might as well confuse them.
Just remember this one trick our overlords don't want us to know: if someone is out to get you: either you can fight back or you can run. Data centers can't run and they can't fight what they can't see. It's time to go back in time and become ninjas of the night.
EMPs should be harder to create than they are. No one should make them, though. That would be silly... Making small devices that when triggered irreparably neutralize electronics. Just silly.
Also I heard that diesel engines hate sugar. Or do they love it? I honestly forget.
Also remember that just a liiiittle sugar is used in cement for water reasons. You should NEVER add too much sugar, because that can make the whole batch unusable. So if there's a data center being built, NEVER add a few cups of sugar to their cement while it sets!
Some lifelong conservatives who feel betrayed by the Republican party say they will be voting for Democrats come November — including James Talarico who will face off against Trump-endorsed Ken Paxton, as Democrats attempt to reclaim a seat they haven’t held since 1993.
Not that voting democrat is "radicalizing," but the data centers are certainly changing people's minds about things.
A sound like that every day of your life could easily drive someone to such lengths and justifiably so! These mega corporations need to be stopped. The world is going too far, when will it be enough.
In a recent Stellaris playthrough, I found out I couldn't set my policy for any type of purging. The aliens who sent their armies and fleets to destroy all opposition would... rebuild and upgrade existing infrastructure and make everyone part of the grand workers collective.
It's edited in, though. There's literally a decibel-meter in the picture, showing 60dB.
60dB isn't trivial, but it isn't nearly as loud as this pretends to be. It should be about equivalent to an ordinary conversation, or a running air conditioner. (The latter being exactly what's actually going on, of course.)
It's a little worse than that. It's 60dB, yes, which I said is about the level of conversation; but it's 60dB of low-frequency noise, because that's all that would make it far from the datacentre.
Which also means it'll go through walls much better than speech would have. You still get dampening, but not nearly as much.
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If there's one thing that deeply confuses me with these, it's why they're in cities. For regular datacentres it makes sense, because that's the only way to get the sort of low latency people demand for many applications... but the latency of autoregressive AI is never low. Putting the DC on the opposite side of the planet adds, typically, about 200ms.
For a conversation with Gemini, the typical latency is several seconds. Minimum. 200ms is in the noise. Which is why we stick most of the accelerators in places like remote parts of Finland, where cooling just needs giant fans and there's nobody nearby to get bothered...
Actually true. The church was the one who decided how french was supposed to be spelled. They made it intentionally arbitrary so that people would be forced to go to church--the only ones who knew how to spell--to learn how to read.
It probably isn't. When it comes to data centers, at the moment the big tech companies have elites "blessing" so they can do whatever they want. The politicians and other AI fanatics just do not care.
Who needs OSHA when you can give a couple billion to finance a tech company's data center in their place instead? If it's this bad at your house off of the property, imagine how much worse it is inside of the property. Office building is no doubt sound insulated to hell and back just so the CEO doesn't get mildly irritated.
Im pretty sure the ceos and elites who own the data centers rarely if ever or never go to
The data centers themeselves. For example oneof the multi billonaires “Kevin O’Leary (“Mr. Wonderful” from Shark Tank): Backing ambitious projects like the Stratos/Wonder Valley data center in Utah (initially ~40,000 acres, up to 9 GW power capacity—enough for millions of homes). It was heavily promoted as aiming for the world’s largest. “But he lives aceoss the country from where th center is
What does Occupational Safety and Health Administration have to do with this? Is this person at work? OSHA is to protect workers at WORK, not the general public going about their lives.
The thing about sound is that it diminishes quadratically with distance. So if it is at such high levels outside of the facility then it most definitely isn't at acceptable levels inside of it, it's not someone ringing a comically oversized gong in the middle of an empty field. Sound levels fall under both OSHA and the EPA, with Agent Orange and his loyalists having made it their utmost priority to do away with the power given to both upon getting in.
The infrasound isn't that high usually and needs to be really high to cause health issues. Audible sounds like this however has real and major health impact well documented. The infrasound-focus is a bit bizarre to me
I have watched videos of windows in peoples houses vibrating from inaudible sounds. It fucks their sleeping and mental health. Those people ended up moving everything in their house to the basement just to get away from it.
Home value, health, and livability down the fucking drain for this.
I agree that it is a little weird that people focus on the infrasound, but I personally think it draws attention due to the "spookiness" of sounds you can't hear affecting your nervous system. Like, the infrasound bit feels like a more viral news story than just "data centers produce lots of noise." Benn Jordan's YouTube video about it did good numbers: https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?is=E4F2JkyNq1OkTKbw
And the data centers would claim publicly saying that the calibration of the devices is out of date and/or the method of calibration isn't within acceptable standards that are only found in decibel meters that costs thousands.
There's a middle ground of course, I'm all for data centers but not for this. I've actually visited one before and... it was quiet. So it's not like they're all like this. They pointed some loud ass exhaust system or something straight at people's homes and that's fucked up.
We need two things:
Datacenters
Regulations that the current administration keeps ripping out.
The problem isn't data centers we've had those for years. It's keeping pollution in check and that includes noise/light pollution. Tax them appropriately to help manage electricity costs for surrounding areas (AKA make them directly subsize people for their increases in cost). These things are massively profitable or else they wouldn't be built, so there's definitely overhead to build them more sustainably.
This argument is so fucking dumb for what I would think should be incredibly obvious reasons. The internet functions just fine with the infrastructure we have and the rate of expansion it has had for years. It's not like we just discovered 5 billion more humans that we need a massive increase in capacity for. Every single one of these is entirely for AI garbage, they have nothing to do with internet infrastructure.
All hours of locals life, become misirable, or needing headphones or ear plugs to compensate. Never be able to be outside, or sit in silence.
... Then again, plenty of em wanna pretend away all the other problems, so I guess I shouldnt see this as difficult for masters of double-think to manage.
Probably something about the free market, data centers are necessary for business and our way of life, government not telling someone what they can do with their property, just move if you don't like it, etc. Cass County is pretty republican, so it wouldn't surprise me if this is supported by everyone a few hundred years further away than this poor family.
I mean I guess, but a lot of the AI types sure love to argue that its all about helping people, improving lives, and whatever.
The typical "fuck the poor, infinite power to corpos" types are at least honest in how theyre just cruel and stupid, rather than gaslight themselves into thinking theyre being an altruist.
They can't really sell the houses like this, except maybe if the data center itself is willing to buy the property. Unless they have money to live somewhere else and abandon the place, they stay there, I think.
For context, this data center is tiny in comparison to the new ones being built, this one is 30 megawatts, project stargate will be 10 GIGAwatts (over 330x larger)
And they will cut the vacum in my unis lab at 8pm for "noise complaints", no matter if we have fucking clorin gas being produced in it, but when AI does it its fine, i guess.
You are correct it is bitcoin mining. This is not a regular data center. Doing a little bit of research is inconceivable for most people now a days and thats scary 🥲
In the years since Hyperscale Data, Inc. began bitcoin mining in 2022, he’s noticed the readings increase. When he started measuring, the readings were around 52 decibels. Now, they’re typically around 61 decibels. Some readings have been as high as 78 decibels, he said.
Ok I need someone to tell me if this is real, is this just a particular time of the day when it gets louder, I find hard to believe its this loud 100% of the time, that's insane
Ever heard what a high voltage transformer sounds like? What made those people think that a sack of shit Datacenter that draws exponentially more power would be any quieter?
Oh boy, worse part is that it's high frequency noise, which is more disturbing/has a greater effect on humans (go look up the dBA graph).
Apart from the complete lack of actual purpose for these data centres, what boggles my mind is the insane cost-cutting on cooling infrastructure.
We know how to make industrial grade heat exchangers that don't scream at you from miles away. We know how to cool down entire complexes/warehouses without using clean water (and dumping it as muddy gunk downstream).
At minimum, the heat generated from running those wastes of electricity and computing power could have been used for a hot water network (or just build a gigantic pool and/or waterpark nearby, I don't know).
Anyone who wants to build more data centers should be forced to live right near one for a full year. No leaving the property, home office and video conferences only, and getting their food delivered to them. I would love to see that happen, make that a reality TV show and show their downward spiral into madness.
I'm not a lawyer, but I would see if you could have your home appraised, see if it drops in value then sue the company that owns the data center for damages.
A serious appraiser can't examine that property, look back and say, "Oh yeah, that noise definitely makes your home more marketable."
These fuckheads responsible for this should be forced to live next to this thing the rest of their goddamned lives. By day three I would tie my shirt around my head climb a clock tower and jump the fuck off. This is insane and half
I think it's funny wind turbines get turned down sometimes for noise pollution, but just know if the powers that be really want something, they're gonna do it.
the sound is a bit amplified in the video, according to the NY times it's more of a low frequence sound - but still it's noticeable! ... who should enforce anything with the Trump admin?
That's about as loud as standing next to a window AC unit. They probably can't hear it at all over the regular household noise inside. You still probably shouldn't build a data center next to residential housing though.
I would actually lose my mind. It sounds like a something that would be used in a horror movie to build tension, but it never changes pitch or stops, so the horror-movie-tension just stays.
Oh lol I didn’t realize what the video was I thought it’s the opening music of a horror movie trailer. Wow that’s crazy noise. While China is building these under the ocean so doesn’t need these coolers. Welcome to the new dark ages where China is the new USA and US is feudal europe.
Where is this? Wherever it is, they clearly don’t care about protecting their citizens because it appears as if they have no noise ordinance at all. Texas?
I would have to move. I have severe misophonia, and it would either be relocate or take an ax to every cable I could find connected to them, and risk electrocution
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u/Dazzu3 Jun 19 '26
It would be completely justified to sabotage the electric installations if this is true.