On-site natural gas turbines at a handful of DCs are genuinely loud. In general I agree that DCs are mostly fine neighbors, but maybe louder power plants aren't.

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TitaRusell 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah this is it. You can make really nice datacenters that are basically quiet and environmentally perfect. This was never in dispute.

But that is not how corporations roll. They want the cheapest shit that they can get away with. No regulations only corruption. Which is middle of nowhere America.

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spongebobstoes 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

they just want data centers now. most companies would rather use solar, but they can't on short timelines due to land use regulations (and import tariffs)

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CamperBob2 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And if they put them in the middle of nowhere, I don't see why there's a problem.

What I don't understand is putting these things in populated areas.

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lstodd 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Would you like to work in the middle of nowhere?

	▲	SoftTalker 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		After construction, not all that many people work at a data center. Some ops staff, maybe a small security team.