Normal datacenters aren’t constructed out if metal shipping containers with external fans blowing through them. Most just look like big warehouses and don’t emit 90db of noise (between a lawnmower and a chainsaw as noted in the article).
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carl_dungeon@lemmy.world 5 months agoYeah but how is this any different than living next to ANY data center? Bitcoin mining is just racks of servers doing what servers do- sucking power, venting heat. A GPU farm for ai training or an AWS data center wouldn’t be any different, and this isn’t being widely reported as an issue. I wonder how the leap from chest pain to “it’s the bitcoins!!” happened.
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 5 months ago
0x0@programming.dev 5 months ago
I wonder how the leap from chest pain to “it’s the bitcoins!!” happened.
CryptoFUD or clickbait or both.
redisdead@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Constant exposure to loud sounds can absolutely lead to other health conditions.
0x0@programming.dev 5 months ago
Didn’t claim otherwise, but the title is clear clickbait. It’s a matter of a crap “datacenter” regardless of the data being processed. Could be AI of your tax returns, it just so happens to be cryptocurrency so let’s put that in the title.
dhork@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Data centers are normally built with good security, and solid walls that keeps the roar of the fans inside. It seems like this mining outfit took the cheap road, and just set up shipping containers with servers inside them instead of building an actual building.
Still, these people shouldn’t be mad at the bitcoiners, they should be mad at the state laws that allow these machines to be as loud as they are with no real penalty. Maybe they should write their State Legislature and tell them the bitcoin mines are killing innocent child processes in broad daylight, since abortion is all they seem to care about.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
But a child process is already a child, not an unborn fetus. So they don’t care.
dhork@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Didn’t you listen to the other old man in the debate? Liberals advocate for termination of child processes even after they have spawned!