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The sound: https://www.tiktok.com/@ayathetigress/video/7650601803972627726
According to Billy Finn, the noise is actually getting louder. He's been tracking the decibel levels on Louise Avenue since 2022, when Hyperscale Data began operating. Back then, the sound level was around 52 decibels. Today, they're typically around 61 decibels, and sometimes go as high as 78 decibels, he told the paper.
Inside his house, it goes down to 39 decibels, which is about the level of a quiet office or library, according to the American Academy of Audiology. But it jumps to 62 decibels when he opens the door, sounding a bit like a passenger jet taxiing on the runway in the distance.
And that's 24/7/365.
Remember that the next time you "ask ChatGPT" instead of making a web search.
Are you under the impression that a web search does not use data centers?
Google in particular has a lot of infra to support their search, which actually used to be good
It doesn't need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it's own inference with search queries now). And that doesn't even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.
derail
So the real world benefits to these this is turning electricity into heat and noise.
Neat. Are we at least using them against our enemies?
I think it would be 100% justified for this guy to firebombed the data center after a week if they don't fix it. They are assaulting his domicile. Stand your ground man
Judging by some comments the pro data center propaganda is working.
They should respect nearby communities!
I bet it's a ai datacenter
So they finally invented tinnitus as a service.
Where do I subscribe?
Armed forces recruiting center. Usually in your local strip mall, between an adult store and the decaying skeleton of a Blockbuster.
...probably not a great idea though.