Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

Fri Jun 23 22:41:38 UTC 2023

I will note that the grid in Loudoun county (arguably the center of the 
Northern Virginia data center boom) has actually gotten a LOT better 
than it was when I first moved here.  Some of that was rebuild started 
before the surge, due to just how bad it was.  But I am fairly sure that 
some of it is a side-effect of the build itself.

Yours,

Joel

On 6/23/2023 6:17 PM, Sean Donelan wrote:
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> Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers
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> The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from 
> cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers.
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> The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers
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> The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making 
> the entire region less stable and proposed construction of new 
> high-voltage tower corridors for data centers.
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> And if you didn't know, some VC-funded companies can be a**-holes and 
> not known for being good neighbors or anything besides making money.
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> And yes, I helped design & build several early data centers in NOVA :-)
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet/ 
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