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?

• BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Here’s some research that shows that Google’s largest datacenters didn’t receive any signficant noise complaints until 2025, despite existing for decades before that.

  …newalbanyohio.org/resident-questions/

  Over the course of more than 15 years of data center development, specifically, New Albany is only aware of four noise complaints from an operational data center – all of which were resolved within days. In September of 2025, the City received consistent feedback from residents near Google’s New Albany campus about noisy exhaust fans.

  Yes, datacenters make Nosie, but so does almost everything else. Airports. Trains. Cars. Factories. The AC Unit on your own fucking house.

  They aren’t special, and they aren’t even particularly bad compare to a lot of the other sources like Airports.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yes, datacenters make Nosie, but so does almost everything else. Airports. Trains. Cars. Factories. The AC Unit on your own fucking house.

    These you’re usually aware of when you move in. When you e lived in a place nearly all your life and now you’re subjected to the noise pollution, it’s a big change.

    You can feel however you want, I’m near Ashburn, data center hell, and see it. New buildings popping up next to neighborhoods nearly weekly. Unless you’re near one, you don’t really have a say. NIMBY, right?

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    The other question is… Is it worth it? Risk people’s lives so you can generate a funny picture? Where’s the limit? Just because we can, doesn’t mean we should. And with the very very limited laws regarding AI currently, and the negative impacts of people’s lives, I’m fully against it.

    We’re the most productive weve every been in all of humanity with the current tools, wtf is AI going to do except help attackers and create more vulnerabilities with “vibe coding”. No thanks.

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    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      A) Benn Jordan’s videos are pseudoscience bullshit not backed up by real science. Studies like pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10032045/ show no effect from Infrasound on sleep for example, while clearly proving that traffic noises DO affect sleep. journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/…/0263-0923.28.2.79 shows that while it can be annoying, it needs to be really fucking loud to do so at these lower frequencies, far higher than HVAC units even hundreds of feet away would produce.

      B) You don’t understand at all what these AI datacenters are being used for. It’s not for personal use for funny picture generation. The scale is required for actual work being performed, not the random ChatGPT queries of home users asking about what to buy their significant other for their birthday.

      C) They will increase productivity further. If you have a problem with productivity returns not being shared properly with workers (which is a problem I have too) the answer is not to attack a method of further productivity increase, it’s to change the rules around how companies and shareholders are allowed to operate.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        You don’t understand at all what these AI datacenters are being used for.

        Don’t need to and don’t care. I see how the rush to build all these, politicians lying about how many jobs it’s going to create, people being displaced from their homes and jobs, environmental issues, etc. the list goes on. I can see the negative and be 1000% against them until there are actual laws regarding AI and the like. It’s a solution to a problem that didn’t exist.

        Also AI very dumb. Even the overview on Google is very often wrong even in my basic searches of asking who voiced a character or played a role in a movie.

        Tracking users faces in their cars, the number of people that have been wrongly arrested after AI decided they’re the suspect without a second thought, literally half way across a country, it’s all fucking crazy.

        What’s wrong with using your brain? We were told to go to college and get educated. For what, to fight with AI bullshit taking over? Kids are dumb as shit, relying AI. Can you not see the issues all this is progressing? I don’t care what you can do with AI if it’s going to hurt so many people in the process. Slow the fuck down, let’s lay down some laws and be a little smarter about this rather than just destroy ecosystems en mass.

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  • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    New Albany DC is not right in the backyard of the neighborhoods either. Take a look at this one - maps.app.goo.gl/12D3xW1iPBjKKSRXA

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    Then all the others surrounding it…

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    • BlameThePeacock@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That place already had massive sound issue, it’s directly under the primary flight path for Dulles Airport and only 3 miles away.

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      • thermal_shock@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        So let’s pile on?

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