Comment by inigyou
14 days ago
The new AI ones are built below minimum standards as a cash grab and they somehow manage to be as loud as jet engines. I have no idea how they manage to achieve that, but I try to avoid denying reality. I agree that an ordinary non-AI data center is no worse than an office building without the people, but that isn't what's happening right now.
> somehow manage to be as loud as jet engines
Thats what anti-AI activists say. A decibel meter is about $20. For some reason the people in those videos never have one.
I saw one news report featuring a reporter casually holding a decibel meter. 55dB at a distance of about a kilometer.
55db is lower than the noise floor in the average office. They were probably just measuring the background noise of regular-ass being outside.
For perspective, the inside of your home is probably about 40. When I turn on my box fan it's about 55.
That said they can be loud when the generators are running. It's possible that when the grid can't keep up the volume goes up, but thats not meant to be a long term state.
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Here: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/RAUfB2WAMD
In this case it's a constant 60dB metallic whine. I would be livid if they built this near my home.
That's a small datacenter with a terrible exhaust fan.
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