• Cypher@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    90 decibels is about as loud as a truck driving past or a (legal, not stupid noisy) motorcycle from 4-5 metres away at 70% rpm.

    If they’re more than 500 metres away this would be a slight annoyance at worst.

    The article mentions studies but doesn’t link any. It uses one doctor as a reputable source but we know doctors can fall for conspiracy theories like anyone else.

    This sounds like the anti-wind farm idiots who claim all sorts of health issues but ONLY after they’ve read about these health issues from conspiracy theories.

    The nocebo effect is real, these people might be suffering, but I have serious doubts the cause is actually some air conditioning… which is what will cause the noise from data centres.

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      5 months ago

      90 decibels is about as loud as a truck driving past or a (legal, not stupid noisy) motorcycle from 4-5 metres away at 70% rpm.

      If they’re more than 500 metres away this would be a slight annoyance at worst.

      Yeah, but a motorcycle won’t drive past you non-stop and 24/7.

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        5 months ago

        There’s still zero evidence for these claims of mysterious health issues.

        People have lived with noise pollution before.

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          5 months ago

          People have lived with noise pollution before.

          “thanks” for your contribution

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          4 months ago

          “People have lived with water pollution before”, he says, dumping a truckload of depleted uranium into the swimming pool.

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      4 months ago

      It’s not a conventional data center. It’s a bunch of containers containing mining hardware with giant fans blowing through them. This is obvious from the header image of the article.