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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
by inigyou 3mo 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.
- mapontosevenths 3mo ago> 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.
- inigyou 3mo agoI saw one news report featuring a reporter casually holding a decibel meter. 55dB at a distance of about a kilometer.
- mapontosevenths 3mo ago55db 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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- StilesCrisis 3mo agoWe're not talking 55dB peaks--it's a constant 55dB _tone_, and not a pleasant one.
- StilesCrisis 3mo agoHere: https://www.reddit.com/r/oddlyterrifying/s/RAUfB2WAMD 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.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoThat's a small datacenter with a terrible exhaust fan.
- inigyou 3mo agoImagine how bad the big ones are then. They're not building them any less cheaply, you know.
- inemesitaffia 3mo agoUsually you see a big building without windows and you can't hear it from the fence of the property. You probably don't know what it is unless someone tells you. In another thread someone claimed a town grew around a new hospital and that it didn't have a datacenter. That town has at least one AT&T Datacenter, a supercomputer that's more AI than traditional computing, and of course said hospital likely has one.