KI-Rechenzentren sind mit zunehmenden Beschwerden über unhörbaren, aber „fühlbaren“ Infraschall konfrontiert – Bürger beschweren sich darüber, dass hoch- und niederfrequente Geräusche nicht auf Dezibelmessgeräten registriert werden, aber gesundheitsschädliche Auswirkungen haben

I can’t imagine anything’s gonna be done about this, they’re already polluting the air and waterways and they’re still laughing all the way to the bank

If there are infrasound involved, seismometers must be able to detect them.

Some of these citizens are also batshit insane and they are given a platform just because it’s clickbait

wait so now it’s not just power and water, it’s the noise too? yeah this is getting ridiculous lol

If residents really want to understand what is happening with the sound that these data centers emit, then a simple decibal meter won’t cut it.

They actually need something that can sample the audio spectrum from 0Hz all the way up to 60kHz and perform a fast fourier transform on it to see where the loudest frequencies in the spectrum are occurring.

Ideally, this should be done at multiple points surrounding the data center, in order to fully characterize the noise pollution. Indoors and out, as well.

My wife complains about my PC making noises I could only imagine this thing near her

Might as well borrow a few more billion in funny money and just build them underground.

Put them far away from residential areas.

[Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity Disorder](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_hypersensitivity) (EHS)

It’s possible to imagine yourself under threat from an external stimulus and thereby experience very real and debilitating symptoms.

EHS exists within a category of illnesses that are all rooted in a self-induced derangement of the nervous system, known as [central sensitization](https://www.ccjm.org/content/90/4/245). I’m reasonably certain that’s what’s happening here. The description matches that of EHS quite closely.

Unfortunately, the people who live near data centers and decide to accept this narrative are setting themselves up for tremendous suffering.

i hate the framing. “citizens complain”. how about the empirical science that PROVES infrasound exposure OBJECTIVELY does cause adverse health outcomes.

these aren’t just whiny citizens. they have real warranted and proven concerns about the health and wellbeing of their families and children.

Just thinking about this in the context of that study recently that showed infrasound literally makes us feel haunted, increasing cortisol levels, anxiety, and flight/flight behaviors.

Edit: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a71175652/creepy-sound-waves-hauntings/

A new cell tower is installed near a village. Villagers immediately start complaining about headaches, ailing livestock, and failing crops, blaming the tower. They threaten to dismantle it.

Finally, the complaints reach the cell company CEO, who immediately travels to the village. He calls a meeting to address the complaints, and begins: „Please accept our most sincere apologies. We understand that the new cell tower is causing numerous disruptions to your normal life. We are deeply concerned with how the situation will unfold when we actually turn the damn thing on.“

Easy solution. Blow them off.

This reminds me of the „Windsor Hum.“ In Windsor, Ontario (across the river from Detroit) the locals claimed to hear a persistant low-frequency hum, to the point that it would make people nauseous. For a while it was treated as an urban legend, and nobody could really figure out what caused it or even if it was entirely real. Then in 2020, it stopped. Just went away. They figured out that the Hum stopped on the samebday that a US Steel plant on Zug Island on the American side (a true industrial hellscape if ever there was one) stopped production due to the pandemic.

So, yeah, this makes sense.

Oh yeah, low frequency sound travels far and through walls. No ear plugs or noise cancellation can stop it either.