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| ▲ | mikestew 42 minutes ago | parent | next [-] |
| The only houses I see are across a busy highway (101). The location is in an industrial park with nothing behind it. You’re not wrong, for large values of “near”, but not making a great case. |
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| ▲ | fzeroracer 38 minutes ago | parent [-] | | It's close enough when you consider that the noise from a poorly built data center (ie: most of the ones being stood up rapidly in the current AI craze) can carry noise upwards of a mile plus depending on a bunch of different factors. So a lot of homes in that area would potentially be within the blast radius of data center noise, especially at night. |
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| ▲ | sokoloff 44 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| It looks to me like it’s several hundreds of meters away from housing, with a 6-lane divided and controlled-access highway between the housing and the site. |
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| ▲ | kccqzy 34 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| If noise is the concern then regulate noise. Don’t restrict data centers. If someone’s house has a dog that barks continuously, you aren’t going to say building houses here are restricted. Instead you restrict barking dogs, which is what cities do. |
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| ▲ | fzeroracer 10 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And companies frequently ignore city-wide noise ordinance thanks to corruption and kickbacks. | | |
| ▲ | kccqzy 6 minutes ago | parent [-] | | And how is that more or less likely then companies ignoring city zoning laws, or making cities grant zoning exceptions through kickbacks and corruption? |
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| ▲ | derektank 40 minutes ago | parent | prev [-] |
| You’re right that it does appear to be near a school (I don’t think anything that contradicts anything else I said). I think the health effects of siting a school right on a major highway are much more serious than being near a data center. |
