You can even hear it in the video, link added…
Before he described the noise I was assuming he lived by a highway, because that’s exactly what it sounds like in the video.
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.
I understand this whole newfound hate is coming from the AI bubble, but a bunch of cool stuff is in those DCs as well - most lemmy instances included.
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
It’s weird that they would build such a big annoying target in a country with so many rifles
And also in a country with such a huge diabetes from sugar problem. That was a joke - fun fact sugar ruins concrete mix
Rifles are noisy. Trebuchets are not. What’s the range of the average consumer trebuchet?
You can fling 100kg 300 m.
You ever hear about the people that shot up a power station? They never figured out who did it.
I went to go get a link, and turns out it happened again a few years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2013_Metcalf_sniper_attack
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore_County_substation_attack
You’re a real piece of shit if you shoot up a power substation/relay…
Oh it didn’t happen just once or twice. It sort of dominated the news for a month two years ago I think. Multiple states
and they build it in GOP controlled districts too. republicans, by in large do not actually protest in anyway for change.
The don’t tread on me crowd are the biggest pussies in the world.
The only time they stood up and protested was against nurses as doctors trying to save lives…
Meanwhile corporations dry fucking them in the ass… they bend over and cry “Can I have some more daddy??”
There was also the Jan 6th riot.
Not a protest, but yeah
(by and large)
Well that was pointless.
Was there supposed to be something on the “sound readings” meter? Can I see it?
No.
Did you not hear the noise with your own two ears? Are you that fucking deaf and willfully ignorant that you you need to see a number and can’t, without it, hear exactly what he’s talking about?
“It’s a conversation that never stops, is in your bedroom, and you can’t turn off, ever. It’s not loud but it never stops.” should be more than enough to make the point abundantly clear especially when you can fucking hear the sound in the video.
For what its worth, despite missing the punchline of the actual measurement, the guy knows what he is talking about. Taking a dB measurement in C weighting over some integration period is how to do it for this scenario. I doubt his meter is calibrated but its doing a good job.
I hear it perfectly. It is a sort of background hum.
Not really data though. It could be anything.
“yeah there’s a new giant structure and there’s a new persistent and pervasive sound in the region that both appeared around the same time, but there’s no data connecting the two. It could just be the sound of my own ego”
It’s more about what the guy is saying.
Lots of people say lots of things. I was interested in the data. Particularly since he said he was collecting it!
Mr Ben Jordan has a very good video about this. Collects a lot of data
While standing next to his sound strength measuring setup no less…
He should have showed more.
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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo
Data centers are acoustic weapons
What the fuck are we getting in return?
A third yacht for a billionaire
Storing data on us and replacing human jobs with AI. No matter how many jobs your local leaders have been told data centers will create, they are intended to replace many more.
AI propaganda, AI surveillance.
More surveillance.
Shrimp Jesus memes and scams able to dupe even more old people
Slightly more convenient search engines. At least according to most of my IT-illiterate peers. “Just ask ChatGPT” - “Fuck, I can already do that with any other search engine, for 1/10th of the energy”.
People never see the cost if they don’t pay it.
Not all data centers are for AI. Practically anything you do on the internet lives or transits through a data center. A very serious answer to your question is simply “the internet”. AI data centers are just bigger and more dense than the ones that have been around for a long time.
Regular non-ai datacenters don’t have all this noise
This isn’t an “AI” data center specifically.
Are you sure about that? I haven’t been near one but have a single dell poweredge in my basement and it’s fucking loud without diy noise insulation around it. I can only imagine the noise a full building of these things is making.
Since I’m getting downvoted and I’m genouinly curious, could someone explain how AI data centers are worse on a noise level than data centers for other purposes?
I’m not saying they are quiet, I just don’t see which hardware for AI is so different from non-ai that it makes a big difference in noise production.
Turbine generators onsite to manage power spikes and reduce the company’s cost of buying power, in musk’s megadatacenter case, the cunt didnt even get permission, he just ordered it done, and the community suffers.
Yes, but until AI, there weren’t nearly as many data centers and they were much smaller. Now massive data centers are going up all over the country, and no, hosting the internet is not their primary purpose
But the reason most new datacenters are build is AI. AI is the cause that the number of datacenters are spiking, not any other poor excuse.
Made without AI will be the next organic non-gmo revolution, even though the latter was mostly a fad.
That’s a very good point!
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.
I live close to a highway and it’s just white noise. I can tune it out outside and inside you can’t hear anything. Except for the motorbikes with custom exhausts. You can hear those assholes even inside. And it’s not because of the highway, you can hear the motorbikes all on adjacent streets as well. It’s really crazy to me that some idiots are allowed to add huge amounts of noise to our environment just for fun. Fuck bikers.
It really does sounds like a large idling diesel truck.
I live 1.5km away from a busy intl airport and there are jets all day idling their engines, it’s not loud, but it is quite constant. Now, I chose to live near the airport because it’s a great location and very convenient, but I do smell burning rubber whenever the wind is blowing my way and a plane lands. But at least the flights quiet down to a trickle at night time. Data enters never quiet down. I’d rather an airport 1.5km from me than a data centre. At least the airport benefits me in some way.
I still wouldn’t want to hear that diesel truck sound all day everyday.
Obviously. I think the guy in the video is being too generous comparing it to the freeway sounds. The data center is way louder and more annoying. That would absolutely drive me insane.
Yea, it might be hard to hear that full sound in a video. Being near them, it is loud as fuck.
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.
No-one commenting has tinnitus then
umm, yay vid. what does it sound like?
Like he lives near a constantly-used motorway
Sounds like you need to listen to the video
I did and can’t hear it. Apparently it’s like a conversation and a highway.
It’s a low frequency hum throughout the video, others compare it to an idling diesel truck and I agree.
Of you can’t hear it, you could move there and switch house with one of the locals.
Why on earth would I do that? It needs to be removed, not pushed onto deaf and hoh communities, who still feel the effects of constant vibration without the benefit of being able to sense its sources.
