Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Fri Jun 23 19:57:19 UTC 2023

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:19 PM Christopher Morrow
<morrowc.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> The discussions in local news (in nova) seem to center around:
>   "but the noise!"
>
> i'm sure it'll work out in the end, but ... gonna be fun to watch.

There is apparently a problem in nearby West Virginia where someone
built a cryptomining facility using free air cooling and it disturbs
the neighbors. https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/18/bitcoin-mining-noise-pollution-appalachia/

Even traditional data centers have not been known to be especially
considerate about scheduling their -loud- genset tests. Doesn't matter
so much in the middle of an industrial zone but when you do it near
where people live you're going to make them angry.

Regards,
Bill Herrin

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William Herrin
bill at herrin.us
https://bill.herrin.us/