What's the tremendous externality of gas generators? People heat their own homes with natural gas and it's no big deal. How can a datacenter that is miles away be worse than that?

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coliveira 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

How can something that is a million times bigger than your home be any different, right?

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jLaForest 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The gas furnace in my basement don't have a massive jet turbine emiting high frequency noise

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alex_duf 37 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

It's the low frequencies that's more of an issue apparently. Benn Jordan has a great series of videos about it, including one on Colossus

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redox99 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I wouldn't call noise pollution a "tremendous externality". The gas turbines should just be placed far enough from where people live.

	▲	ben_w 3 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Should, but in fact are too close.