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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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[–] 6 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Stop using your mobile phones and computers. All those ones and zeroes need to go someplace. I wonder if the European or Japanese data centers require more sound proofing to reduce noise pollution.

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  • [–] 16 points 4 months ago

    Not all datacenters are the same. The U.S. has like 4000 of them which outscales any other country by a factor of ten. Most are small nondescript buildings which are just there to route internet packets or were built before other countries even had internet.

    This is like treating a car the same as a semi.

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  • [–] 8 points 4 months ago

    most of the stuff on a debian computer and graphene phone is processed directly on the device, the ones and zeroes go to your device

    and primitivism is bad, computers are a net good for us

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