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Shut up and take our money: Amazon plows $1B+ into quashing datacenter dissent
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Yeah, if data centers used solar power, batteries, and cooling that doesn’t waste water, I think communities wouldn’t mind (as much).
Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons - Benn Jordan
synopsis?
The synopsis is the title. Just watch it, his videos are presented concisely enough and worth your time.
Alright… I wasted a half an hour of my life, so no one else needs to. The maker of the video didn’t even bother with a description.
The title doesn’t say how they are doing this (what causes the effect and what the effect—if any—does to those affected by the “acoustic weapon”) nor who/what it effects: “Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons - Benn Jordan”
My synopsis for you: The thesis of the video is that data centers produce infrasound (low-frequency noise) that is harmful to people who live nearby. The video shows the noise being recorded to prove it is happening.
I’m not at expert in this, so I can’t tell whether the level recorded has any effects for people living nearby as is claimed. I suppose if you need a reason to watch it, you could see for yourself if the argument and evidence seems convincing, or if you can find a flaw in it better than I can.
If I had fucking 280 billion and wanted to build the world's biggest data center right fucking now, you bet your ass I'd buy out the entire production chain of renewables infrastructure and get fucking even richer for the next 50 years as I use the stuff at the start to make the data center, then the rest to charge the local population for green energy, and to spend the rest of the supply chain after to sell more green energy production stuff.
If you had 280 billion, you wouldn't give two hot shits about destroying the world.
Not really, I keep up with the news and want to achieve nice things.
That's why you don't have 280 billion.
Well, you can help change that.
Evil.
It's not even that. Plenty of data centres are also being built illegally, in gross violation of environmental regulation. Straight up criminal.
That would increase their already insane power consumption