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Michigan residents sue AI data center emitting noise 24/7 — company fined for industrial noise ordinance violations, offers to buy homes from residents (www.tomshardware.com)
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Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, just filed a lawsuit against a data center that allegedly generates a high-pitched whining sound — and has done so 24/7 for the past two years.

The data center, which is owned by Alliance Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, used to be an industrial building that sat behind a row of pine trees across the street from the most affected residents, according to ABC-affiliateWXYZ. The site started development in 2018 and was eventually turned into a cryptocurrency mining center in 2021. But in 2024, something changed drastically when the building started emitting noise pollution around the clock. Residents say it sounds like a vacuum cleaner in their living room, and the company has offered to buy up homes from unhappy residents.

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[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 5 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

More reasonable: roll back to before the datacenter was permitted for construction, find substantially equivalent houses in the general area - 20% more square footage, 20% higher value per square foot, and track their values over time until the present, and whatever the peak was, offer 20% more than that plus moving expenses... effectively 175% of "fair" value + maybe $20K.

[–] athatet@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 hours ago

Most reasonable: burn down the data center and build low cost housing on the ashes.

[–] EggInDisguise@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Why be "reasonable" with unreasonable people?

[–] SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 hour ago

Being "reasonable" with unreasonable people is unreasonable. Be reasonable.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 3 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Plus .5% of all future profits.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 2 points 4 hours ago

Yeah, 0.5% was what I was offered as Director of 50% of new startups... 0.005% is more realistic - and could range from 0 to outrageous.