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?

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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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