Benn Jordan leveraged his expertise in audio engineering to investigate this phenomenon. Do watch.
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Benn Jordan is a gem, do yourself a favor and just go watch all his stuff.
His latest on robot dogs is amazingly well-executed and researched with terrifying conclusions.
Listen to his music, too! It’s amazing! I’ve seen him a few times and one time the equipment at the festival didn’t work so he just improvised his whole set. He was insanely good at it. So much vocoder, it was delightful!
Benn Jordan is like an anarchist Mr. Rogers.
We need an anarchist Mr. Rogers. Just someone pure of heart to talk to kids about taking care of their neighbors no matter what the government says. Little everyday lessons in consensus and how to deal with the conflicts that arise when different people have different big feelings. How everyone is special just for being themselves and we should encourage our neighbors to be their unique selves.
Totally agree.
I don't disagree, but I feel like the actual Mr. Rogers probably created a lot of Anarchists on his own! I think everything he teaches is not just cohesive with, but runs parallel to, Anarchist teachings. Taking care of yourself and your community is the foundation of Anarchism. I don't know if being explicit would necessarily help, and it could push some people away from hearing the message.
He was too friendly with cops though.
so, a huge improvement. :)
this is a great video
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The US has a serious problem with who is able to sue for what damages when it comes to pollution. Depending on if it's noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Depending on if it's noise, water, or air, the legal codes are not effective at protecting property or people.
Boy, it's almost like those are meant to protect something and someone else... Hm... 🤔
Publicize the costs, privatize the profits!
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Just tax the fucking things already. Fuck tax breaks and kick out any administrators who take the bribes and go against the wishes of their constituents.
Woah woah woah, let's not get hasty. I say we dismember the administrators for taking bribes. Why just kick them out?
Why wouldn’t you do that to the board of directors of the companies bribing the officials? When removing weeds you need to pull out the roots.
Everyone involved should be flayed.
When did they say not to?
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Have a number of big fans run at almost the same frequency, and you get an onslaught of waves at the differences of those frequencies.
As they are all nearly the same speed/frequency, the differences will be infrasound, which causes a lot of odd effects on people, like anxiety.
So basically the data centers could alleviate their sound problems by having all their fans run at opposite frequencies to cancel our the sound through deconstructive interference
Or better, shutting down entirely.
And do something that's good for people at virtually no expense? Haha, no.
Or soundproof the building.
Isn't it really difficult to soundproof against the low frequency noises?
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Yeah, but do you know what's super useful? Molotov cocktails.
Not sure how effective that would be unless you were able to get inside the building and could strategically deliver them.
What you really need is a drone that can drop thermite, then lower a small EMP device into the hole.
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drones/balloons with long metal wire dangling down.
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The same argument is used by opponents of wind energy - Infrasound is having bad effects on their health. People do say that while living next to roads that are producing infrasound multiple times louder than wind turbines ever could.
It's a nice argument if you need it.
There's documented proof of this being measured by multiple people.
A windmill is literally only a visual blight.
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we’ve had data centres for 40 years how did this only recently come up in America?
Ngl didn’t read the article
Ooh a question I can answer. I will make the answer as neutral as I can just explaining the differences of old Data Centers and new ones.
I worked in several data centers (DC). But all were air cooled. These AI DCs are also called Hyper scales. They need liquid due to the density of heat production. In addition some literally use jet engines to power them instead of grid power. Some new DCs use loopholes like adding wheels to their power production so that way they can skirt around laws saying it's only temporary power production.
In the past a rack (42u standard) would hold things like hard drives, tape libraries, network stuff, and servers. Now they cram in GPUs by the dozens, run them at max via liquid cooling. Traditional DC cooling used air cooled hot and cold isles, raised floors with air conditioning pump and large scale chiller units.
Hyper scales are whole different animals. They are ment for processing. Depending on their loop system they need water connected right to GPU/CPUs, heat distribution, fresh water. All relatively new due to water's thermal mass.
Traditional DCs were air cooled. For perspective a fortune 500's DC may have been 3k sq ft. A Colo (multiple companies sharing one building for infrastructure) may be 15000-50000sq ft. These new data centers are now campuses. Like they are 8 data center buildings on one site because it's more practical to drive at some point.
TL;DR a Data Center =/= hyperscale data center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis
So they build them cheaply and doing everything in their power to avoid regulations. We really need the government to come in and shut these down given all the harm they cause to their local environment.
A government worried about the environment... That usually only happens in times of mass outrage, chances of which might decrease over time by modern ~~propaganda~~ communication strategies.
We really need the government to come in and shut these down given all the harm they cause to their local environment
But the government is helping pave the way for it.
It was a theoretical thing. Government is supposed to work for the people, not just corporations. Obviously the government in the US is not doing a good job at that.
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Yeah. People don't understand why I'm not anti-datacenter (let me finish before you dog-pile me). Datacenters are very efficient ways to house lots of compute. Power, HVAC, and staffing all benefit from economies of scale. Most of our modern life is highly depent on datacenters, including application specific AI tools (not LLMs, but like medical imaging analysis tools) that will have positive effects on humanity. I do have problems with datacenters that are going up quickly and cheaply, with lax standards for air, water, sound and light pollution, and power subsidized by the surrounding homes, in order to ride the front of this very unstable AI bubble.
Before you ask, I did sign the petition to limit datacenters in my state. I'd sign one to limit new datacenter construction nation-wide. Datacenters are essential to modern life, which is exactly why we should have a higher standard for how they are constructed. I'm not anti-data center, but I am anti-whatever-the-fuck-this-is.
This would be hell for me.
I'm surprised the 49ers haven't already built a data center right next to their stadium.
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