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I don't want anybody else to live near a data center either.
Not even because of the noise or heat or whatever; just because they only have a few employees and that's just bad urbanism. A data center is a hole in the urban fabric with no foot traffic.
If you must have 'em, put 'em out in the middle of nowhere (but along the internet backbone fiber between cities).
Basically the only part of zoning law that is actually good is the industrial/residential separation, and data centers are clearly industrial. It's extremely strange that they are getting built as close to residential zones as they are.
Someone in govt fucked up zoning? Or are people living in industrial areas and complaining?
Because the nuts are running the nuthouse and nothing is enforced unless it has a news story anymore.
I live near a data center and cloudflare and microslop banned me for scrapping.
Maybe don't take the computers for scrap while they're still plugged in.
Or actually, do more of that. Fuck those guys.
I'm kinda curious what would be the cause of these health effects. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is I know there is increased cancer risks living near high voltage power lines. Are these data centers using so much power they are experiencing a similar effect?
Either that or they are doing a massive amount of illegal pollution and that's causing the effects.
Not saying the effects don't exist, just interested in the root cause.
Some of them are dumping chemicals in local water ways for some reason. I don't even know what chemicals a data center, which is just a big room full of server racks essentially, would even be producing. Even if the water cooling systems weren't closed loop systems, they shouldn't be getting polluted.
Any place with living animals must have some pollution, I mean at a minimum they must have a bathroom which by definition must pollute to some point.
Infrasound Noise pollution
https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C14&q=infrasound+health+effects
It's not new information. It's been studied for some time because fracking also causes this type of sound.
It's sort of like radiation. You can't hear it. You can't immediately feel it. But it has cumulative effects and intensity and exposure are factors in how severe the effects are.