alt Hacker NewsThe people having glass literally break from the vibrations would probably disagree with your opinion
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?is=sg09k66iutKFIFSo
Yet here we are, discussing "data center" as if they're standardized and of similar (nose) isolation.
There are no meaningful regulations in building them, and they can be incredibly polluting. So your experience with a potentially well isolated one is sadly not the norm going forward. And we don't even know how close you lived, if you're eg talking about "within 5km/3miles" then your experience would also have little value in this discussion in general.
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The fact that people have lived and worked near data centres for decades and didn't even know what the term meant - let alone be adversely impacted by them - probably indicates they're broadly an non issue. All of a sudden out of nowhere, AI and data centres got intermingled by the media and now people seem to have big issues with them.
> There are no meaningful regulations in building them
If a municipality doesn’t have emissions, noise, water use, etc regulations, that’s a serious failure in governance.
We don’t need nor want the word “data center” in regulations anymore than we need the word “abattoir.”
The names of the things we build change all the time. Their impact on their communities don’t.
We need to regulate impact, not the name or type of business.
If we did, nobody would know or care about data centers and they wouldn’t be affecting their communities, because they’d be operating under established impact regulations.
How far do you live from a data center?
>The people having glass literally break from the vibrations would probably disagree with your opinion
Can you cite a source for this? It's not in the video, as far as I can tell.
I would be wary of Benn Jordan's videos. They are full of mistakes and misrepresentations, as Andy Masley has convincingly demonstrated: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...
I recall seeing Benn Jordan's responses on Bluesky and thinking they were quite poor. He was unwilling to admit to mistakes, and kept trying to grasp at newly searched papers that didn't actually support his arguments.