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Comment on What is the big deal with data centers or whatever? How can they give off pollution? I get it may cause a spike electricity but shouldn't the company give residents a discount for having theirs?

ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

On top of using inefficient and dirty power sources, they also suck up all the local water, produce heat domes (pollution) and noise pollution at registers that causes psychological issues.

Getting 10% off a subscription to a shitty LLM that doesn’t can’t do anything properly, doesn’t offset that.

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BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
That noise pollution bullshit is quite literally the same scare tactics used against wind farms. It’s completely false.

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- ParlimentOfDoom@piefed.zip ⁨33⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago
  Except this one isn’t. AC units make a lot of noise. AC units for a server game the size of a mall, make a fuck ton
  
  A slowly spinning turbine, not so much.
  
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- Corporal_Punishment@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  Data centres, like other large industrial facilities often have cooling equipment/HVAC installed on the outside of the building.
  
  That shit is loud if it doesnt have proper sound proofing installed.
  
  I live about 750m away from a factory that didn’t have the soundproofing until I got the local council enforcement team involved. At my front door and in our bedroom the noise level was averaging around 60db if we left the windows open (which wasnt an option in warm weather).
  
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- thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago
  You’re crazy as shit if you really think that.
  
  eesi.org/…/communities-are-raising-noise-pollutio…
  
  I’m not going to do your research, but that link is a good start. Use your brain and stop eating paint chips.
  
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