Holy shit, dizziness causes data centers?!
Correlation implies causation
Submitted 16 hours ago by REDACTED@infosec.pub to science_memes@mander.xyz
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Abyssian@lemmy.world 11 hours ago
marcos@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
The delay implies on the other direction. Let’s see if dizziness reduces a bit in 6 months.
Abyssian@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
But it really doesn’t.
You could replace number of data centers with total number of Taylor Swift songs released and get that same idea. Taylor Swift music existing causes dizziness, and it just be stopped.
Or you could replace number of data centers with “Sean Connery alive?” and decide dizziness has been going up since he died.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 16 hours ago
The chances of this actually being connected is probably near zero, but still felt funny enough to post.
Randomly stumbled upon this while researching why are so many people around lately feeling dizzy.
craftrabbit@lemmy.zip 15 hours ago
I didn’t even know dizziness was on the rise! What did you find?
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
If I were to guess, probably heat stroke due to rising temperatures. Which, if true, would also be worsened by having more data centers
Osprey@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Stress or anxiety can also cause dizziness.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 12 hours ago
Nothing solid. Imma about to put on my tinfoil hat and start looking at the Russian satellites. Realistically I’m way over my head here and I hope someone else notices the weird trend. The only reason I started looking around is because I feel slightly dizzy for the past 3 months and decided to ask around. Surprisingly alot of people are experiencing the same thing. I’m from Baltics. All health checkups return perfectly fine.
ladicius@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Maybe rising CO2 levels? Just guessing.
RamenJunkie@midwest.social 11 hours ago
You ever spin in a circle? You do it a few times you don’t really notoce, you do it a lot, younget dizzy.
The earth has been spinning in a lot of cirxles, and we are starting to cross into the “do it a lot” range of spins.
– Calvin’s Dad
drolex@sopuli.xyz 15 hours ago
It’s actually
Causation causes correlation
merc@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
Correlation causes causation.
ivan@piefed.social 16 hours ago
Infrasound. Proven negative impact on people’s health and general wellbeing, waves travel quite far and have high penetration, and data centers are absolutely the source of it with all the fans and pumps.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip 6 hours ago
Has it been proven? I see articles that suggest pathways or mechanisms.
But when I looked for a double blind study with controls, they do not find any effects at all. Arguably the majority of studies are around 8 hour periods or sleep period, not 24 hour exposure. But you would think they would find something. They did hearing tests, blood test, brain activity tests, and emotional response “feeling” scores. It just isnt there conclusively.
People started doing a lot of this research because of the wind turbines, which also are very loud, run as long as their is wind, and produce infrasound.
Don’t get me wrong: I am not defending putting loud constant noise machines near people, this should be part of a zoning regulation. That seems bad enough, infrasound or not.
jaybone@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
How far does that actually travel, and how does that compare to other bad stuff that has been around longer, like refineries or power substations or whatever?
quediuspayu@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 hours ago
Where I live there’s a refinery, about ten years ago they changed the burners on the tall torches for a new kind that burn apparently cleaner but they make a lot more noise. It is 6km away with no direct line of sight, the low pitch rumble makes some of the windows in my house rattle.
ivan@piefed.social 12 hours ago
So, you may have noticed that 5 GHz Wi-Fi has smaller coverage area than 2.4 GHz.
It works that way all the way down to infrasound, which is <20 Hz, and natural examples would be whale communications (thousands of kilometers) or volcano eruptions (infrasound wave from Krakatoa eruption lapped around entire globe multiple times).
As for human factors - basically any big industrial tech object is gonna be the source of ultrasound. So it’s kind of safe to assume that infrasound from data centers may be “heard” from at least several kilometers away. Dunno how it compares to refineries and power substations - but they’re also source of that.
erev@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
When datacenters are being powered by unregulated natural gas generators then it has a massive impact
Setiyeti93@lemmy.ca 15 hours ago
youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?is=V2TgYgy6_cqwgCYC
A very informative video
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net 9 hours ago
mufkin@lemmy.zip 14 hours ago
I’m pretty sure this is made up.
REDACTED@infosec.pub 13 hours ago
mufkin@lemmy.zip 7 hours ago
Just stop. You could have put that in your post. I’m not clicking that link. Post your evidence and not a screenshot. Do better.
tonyn@lemmy.ml 1 hour ago
Image It’s not just diziness