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Data center noise at Great Oak community outside Manassas, Virginia. (streamable.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 7 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Not all data centers are for AI. Practically anything you do on the internet lives or transits through a data center. A very serious answer to your question is simply "the internet". AI data centers are just bigger and more dense than the ones that have been around for a long time.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago (2 children)

    Regular non-ai datacenters don’t have all this noise

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  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Yes, but until AI, there weren't nearly as many data centers and they were much smaller. Now massive data centers are going up all over the country, and no, hosting the internet is not their primary purpose

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