Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Fri Jun 23 21:42:56 UTC 2023

On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:
>
> 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/

arguably, people buying into the idea that blatantly flim-flamming
folks aren't going to flim-flamming them is.. not related here, at
all.
(that article is about limestone, TN, not west virginia - west nor
virginia appear in the article)

> 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.

sure, I believe the various nova parts have reasonable agreements
about how/when to do these
sorts of tests though.