Post #3345205
2026-06-18 13:08 UTC
Replies (16)
-
@mlanger@mastodon.world 2026-06-19 01:44
A big thank you to the folks who boosted this and an even bigger thanks to the folks who provided useful information and links. The sound I'm hearing is a low frequency rumble that I began hearing just before 4 AM this morning when it woke me out of a sound sleep. I'm still hearing it after 6 PM. And a special thanks to the folks who identified themselves as assholes by posting some inane, smart ass, bullshit comment. Of course, you won't see this because I've blocked you. 🙄
-
@balslev@assemblag.es 2026-06-18 14:45
@mlanger@mastodon.world https://www.eesi.org/articles/view/communities-are-raising-noise-pollution-concernsabout-data-centers
-
@DrHyde@fosstodon.org 2026-06-18 14:52
@mlanger@mastodon.world I’d be far more concerned about the welfare of people who live near noisy football grounds.
-
@UrbanCityCowboy@mastodonapp.uk 2026-06-18 16:16
@mlanger@mastodon.world Given your post a boost. I don't live near a data center yet (there may be one coming) but I live near an electricity sub station and being on the Autistic spectrum the low-end hum when it'd under high capacity - although quiet to most people - can be excruciating to someone like me.
-
@tomsart@mastodon.social 2026-06-18 16:20
@mlanger@mastodon.world A video from Benn Jordan talking about, among other things, measuring infrasound exposure from datacenters: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo
-
@piggo@piggo.space 2026-06-18 17:13
@mlanger@mastodon.world is this really happening?
-
@tizen@meow.social 2026-06-18 17:22
@mlanger@mastodon.world The Cars on the main-Road are loud enough to hear nothing else
-
@KayseeColorado@universeodon.com 2026-06-18 19:20
@mlanger@mastodon.world Erin Brokovich has a data center map to see if one has sprung up around you. https://www.brockovichdatacenter.com/
-
@debzo@mstdn.social 2026-06-18 20:43
@mlanger@mastodon.world ‘A prison in our own yard’: Life next to a data center — and its never-ending noise https://www.mlive.com/news/kalamazoo/2026/06/a-prison-in-our-own-yard-life-next-to-a-data-center-and-its-never-ending-noise.html
-
@n_dimension@infosec.exchange 2026-06-18 21:22
@mlanger@mastodon.world Mastodon servers are not housed in #datacentres They roam free range in the electric fields, feeding off ball lightning and scattered static. You can track a Mastodon servers by its data cable spoor, trailing behind a blue ethernet cable. Though some larger #mastodon servers trail a red fiberoptic spoor. A more elusive Mastodon server uses a satellite dish. Those are harder to track. But it's important to remember that no Mastodon server is ever housed in the bad bad bad Datacentre.
-
@elfin@mstdn.social 2026-06-18 21:52
@mlanger@mastodon.world I really do not get this. By 2005 I had worked in EVERY Data Center from Oakland to San Jose, and many across the Midwest and Colorado ... and NONE of them made noise. What's changed?
-
@sternecker@infosec.exchange 2026-06-18 22:22
@mlanger@mastodon.world live next to a data center but it isn't a megalopolis commercial version. Not loud, but security lights are on 24/7, lights confuse the local birds. Highway is louder.
-
@nicole@queer.group 2026-06-18 22:22
@mlanger@mastodon.world is this turtle island specific or a world wide request? (asking for everyone else)
-
@7sleepersmusic@mastodon.social 2026-06-18 22:34
@mlanger@mastodon.world ICYMI https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/data-centers-noise-pollution.html?unlocked_article_code=1.q1A.hVza.S8spDl4PIhtX
-
@lumilumi@tech.lgbt 2026-06-19 01:27
@mlanger@mastodon.world I dont have any info but im very curious about this topic!
-
@hyperzonk@tech.lgbt 2026-06-19 06:03
@mlanger@mastodon.world Might be an inertial power backup (also known as flywheel UPS) ... giant rotating wheel that provides power in the gap between a grid power failure and when the data center's backup generators come online. They absolutely try to minimize anything that might cause noise (because that would just waste energy and shorten the bridge time) by putting them in vacuum enclosures and riding the rotor on magnetic bearings, but they generate some low frequency vibrations.