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Residents who live near data centers say a constant low-frequency vibration is ruining their health and homes (www.nytimes.com)
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[+] -6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

While I'm not a fan of Big tech, but this surely is nonsense. Are they saying there are more vibrations than, say, living in New York? Near those train lines and billions of cars (and there are probably data centers there too).

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (1 child)

    You better watch this video by Benn Jordan about exactly this issue: https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo

    He measured the reported issue.

    Here is a timestamp witg the datacenrer noise isolated: https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?t=540

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    I'd be really hesitant with Benn's videos here. I think Andy Masley has a pretty solid piece describing how they are likely incorrect and possibly even deceptive. There's enough reasons to hate data center expansions and AI that I don't think it's particularly helpful to promote ideas like infrasound majorly affecting our health, as I'd think it dilutes some otherwise important arguments with things that are factually dubious.

    https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center-and

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