alt Hacker NewsThis feels less like a data center problem and more like a basic failure to price and regulate industrial externalities...are crypto mining or ai compute socially useful? Up for debate, but what isn't is that neither should make a surrounding neighborhood unlivable.
Also, noise regulations aren't good for this kind of constant tonal sound. Any facility like this should have to prove it can operate within a certain acousting footprint before it's built
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If it's generating revenue from an international clientele, and paying local taxes, it's almost guaranteed to be socially useful, at least from the domestic standpoint.
> Also, noise regulations aren't good for this kind of constant tonal sound
Maybe the regulations could be structured around a scaled integral of volume over time
Ah, the ol' "stop hitting yourself, stop hitting yourself" defense
It's so easy! Just think of every possible scenario and avenue that can be abused, and legislate it, in perpetuity.
You really just need the noise ordinance to have more teeth... instead of just a perpetual fine, you need to be able to shut them down if they continue to exceed the noise threshold.