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Yeah, fuck the Crypto Bros and all, but the noise is the only documented trigger here. I can believe that exposure to constant, loud noise can cause health issues, but the rest of it reads like a copy-paste about the dangers of 5G cell towers. I find it hard to believe that noise can cause ear infections, or cause plants to die.
Its fashionable to blame the crypto bros for everything, because they are insufferable twats. But the real blame lies with the State that lets businesses generate noise with impunity.
I was just about to say boo-hoo, a dog gone bald, but 85 decibels measured from outside your window is brutal. There's a reason these farms are mostly built in the middle of the desert, on the oil fields, or near a dam, with no residential housing nearby.
Yeah, every medical emergency in town will be blamed on Mara from now on, but I'm not even mad. They've got themselves into this mess. For those who don't know, they've built their entire marketing on being compliant with regulations :D
The whole thing is awfully similar to the wind turbine controversy. The reasonable people spend years assuring the public that the windmills are not going to kill them, and then somebody comes up and says "Great! We're gonna build our windfarm right next to these houses".
Except wind farms don't emit noise. I work around them. You can just go into a field right under a huge windmill and take a nap, they're fully silent within our hearing range
It's not about what they do, it's about what people think they do! :D
Must be nice to see them go up-close. I must add that to my bucket list.
They're super cool! You have no idea how big they really are. The blades are the length of perhaps four or five semi trucks. Absolutely massive.
Some of it is definitely silly, but if it is outputting ultrasound, it very well could be causing health issues.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8954895/
I've certainly heard cooling fans output loud high pitched whines, so it wouldn't shock me to hear that they were putting out loud ultrasonic whines.
Ultrasound falls off quickly and is very easily blocked by obstructions. Bitcoin didn't invent ultrasound, or computers either, for that matter. Even if it had an effect, then we'd see people dropping dead in electronics stores.
I can drink a glass of water, so nobody ever drowns.
Well, if this were plausible, you would expect to hear a lot more complaints from people who live and work near datacenters. But we don't, so I think it's pretty easy to conclude that these computers aren't emitting ultrasound, or if they are that it isn't the source of the issue.
Do you know how loud ultrasound has to be just to travel a few meters through the air? People would basically have to be living inside the datacenter even if these things were converting half their energy input into deliberately generating ultrasound.
Because those cranks were cribbing from the real impact of long-term sensory stress... like living somewhere with constant noxious fumes, or having a goddamn hair dryer in your ear 24/7.