Technology

Oh man, I hate data centers more every day. They're burning energy and causing disturbances in order to support fucking what? What the fuck are we getting in return?

You know I will say as an IT tech, that often times works in data centers doing repairs upgrades ads changes etc. That data centers are absolutely horrid to work in. The constant hum in drone will just wear you out. There's absolutely no way to silence something like that. It literally gets into your bones. That's why most data centers are not really staffed unless somebody is on site to do some work. This myth of data centers creating jobs is absolutely idiotic. I've never been in a data center with more than one or two employees in it. And most of those like I said aren't full-time employees they literally show up let you in show you where you need to work and will only hang out long enough while you're on the site. Having to wear headphones in a data center is absolutely mandatory.

I used to live a few miles from I5 and that was loud and constant, but was a pretty soft kinda rushing sound not really that different from hearing the wind rustling trees; the sound going on in this video sounds like an idling diesel truck parked across the street.

If anyone’s curious, this is the AWS Tanner Campus. It’s right across the street from the official, marked on the map location for AWS’s us-east-1, and they are all IAD- buildings, so they’re part of what makes up the us-east-1 AWS region. The project was announced as early as 2020.

It consists of four single-story data center buildings spanning nearly 800,000 square feet, which are supported by a massive 192-megawatt electrical substation and backup diesel generators.

As others here have said, this is not an “AI” data center, it’s a data center that runs massive swathes of the internet as we know it. Either way it’s fucked that they’re approved to build this shit right behind peoples houses. They are right across the street from a regional airport, so maybe that areas zoned commercial? It’s definitely a weird area in general. Driving down prince william parkway you’re seeing tons of straight industrial support shit, like metal shops and construction supply stuff and warehouses with performance car shops with dynos and everything, then you just hit houses.

It was probably zoned back when nobody ever thought anyone but the rednecks already out there would live that far outside the beltway, but now commuting from Manassas/Gainesville into DC or somewhere else inside the beltway is normal, and they’re building houses where they never thought they’d be building.

Again though, fuck Amazon and Prince William County for assaulting these people like this.

It's weird that they would build such a big annoying target in a country with so many rifles

Well that was pointless.

Was there supposed to be something on the "sound readings" meter? Can I see it?

No.

Before he described the noise I was assuming he lived by a highway, because that's exactly what it sounds like in the video.

Made without AI will be the next organic non-gmo revolution, even though the latter was mostly a fad.

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.

Is the image for this just a man’s torso with his hand over his stomach like he’s going to have a baby or is it just me. I thought this was going to be very different at first

I can't think of a better illustration for the article than that guy's belly.

We should seriously consider a right to destroy noise making crap in general. Currently listening to a 110Db mower, I should be allowed to go out and stomp it, except, maybe, on Sunday afternoons.