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wish every fucking AI fanboy on this goddamned planet had to endure this shit
They’re worried the sound drove down the price of their home, but they didn’t join the lawsuit… I’m officially confused.
Doing something that lowers the value of somebody’s house is usually a pretty slam dunk way for that person to be able to sue you. The article doesn’t mention if they have some sort of weird attachment to the house, but otherwise why wouldn’t you just wanna take the money and move somewhere else in the same town or otherwise? Especially if it’s already been four fucking years.
They probably have more to gain in individual action than class action
Joining a lawsuit like that wouldn’t automatically make it class action.
I'm not a class action law person, but I would think having that large a group of people harmed could qualify for lawsuit consolidation under a class action, assuming they could appropriately define the class.
I am also not an expert in this area, however AFAIK being capable of being class action doesn’t make it class action. The Sandy Hook families sued Alex Jones and the number of plaintiffs didn’t make that class action either. As well, in Oklahoma right now there are 100s of similar cases against State Farm regarding hail damage payouts and despite intervention from the state AG these have not become a class action. From the information we do have at least one household invited at least one other household to join a lawsuit and they declined, beyond that we don’t know that there are even other plaintiffs to begin with.
yeah, the scenario i'm thinking of is that they have a few ten thousands lawsuits in that area alone and the respondent (whoever owns the datacenter) registers to have all those lawsuits consolidated. i could swear i've heard of it happening but again, not an area of law i've so much as been adjacent to.
They probably have a stronger claim and higher-ceiling on their portion of any judgment suing individually.
that is why nimbyism exists. these Ai datacenters are built in places where the locals arnt rich enough to block the construction.
It may play a role in nimbyism persisting, but it's not why it exists.
Damn, I honestly thought this was an onion post at first.
So the real world benefits to these this is turning electricity into heat and noise.
Neat. Are we at least using them against our enemies?
they are. its always the rich vs. the poor
So they finally invented tinnitus as a service.
and deafness. tinnitus is often associated with hearing loss.
The sound: https://www.tiktok.com/@ayathetigress/video/7650601803972627726
According to Billy Finn, the noise is actually getting louder. He's been tracking the decibel levels on Louise Avenue since 2022, when Hyperscale Data began operating. Back then, the sound level was around 52 decibels. Today, they're typically around 61 decibels, and sometimes go as high as 78 decibels, he told the paper.
Inside his house, it goes down to 39 decibels, which is about the level of a quiet office or library, according to the American Academy of Audiology. But it jumps to 62 decibels when he opens the door, sounding a bit like a passenger jet taxiing on the runway in the distance.
And that's 24/7/365.
Remember that the next time you "ask ChatGPT" instead of making a web search.
...sounding a bit like a passenger jet taxiing on the runway in the distance.
That could be because they use turbine generators for power when/if the local grid can't support what they want. The major difference between the turbines used in aircraft and the ones for datacenters is the load. Giant fans for planes, generators for datacenters.
Please ignore the obvious onesidedness of the link below. Its there to show I'm not making this ip. It's shitty that this is allowed and they aim to siphon off as much money as they can.
https://www.greengasturbines.com/blog/gas-turbines-for-data-centers-hyperscaler-power
Are you under the impression that a web search does not use data centers?
Google in particular has a lot of infra to support their search, which actually used to be good
It does not use AI data centers. Those are not remotely on the same scale as what we called a data center before this LLM hype started. This infrastructure will not have another use once the bubble pops.
It was said that one was built in 2022. That's long before they started doing gigawatt scale bullshit.
There is a difference between using X amount of resource to provide an actual output that justify spending X amount of resource, and using X*1000 resources to provide zilch.
Citation on it being zilch because they do a fair bit of actually useful work these days while the search engines mostly seem to be going downhill (Kagi being an exception)
Search engine going downhill is mostly a side effect of AI enshitification getting in the way. Even google, which people keep saying is "dying", works as well as before as long as you're not using their default page which is filled with AI garbage and other automated content.
Also, Large AI models from large provider doing a fair bit of actually useful work would have to be confronted with other way to do said work. People burning tokens to edit PDF isn't exactly that efficient compared to opening a god dawn editor.
Government propaganda making people think it's AI chat bots why all these data centers are being built
They are to process the enormous amounts of data the government, flock and the rest are gathering to monitor citizens
It doesn't need nearly as many. AI inference is orders of magnitude more expensive than a single search query (ignoring the fact that Google does it's own inference with search queries now). And that doesn't even include training, which is stupidly expensive to do.
Sure. But let's not pretend Web search is innocent here. Wanna be eco friendly, walk to your local library.
Using this a lot lately, huh
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Judging by some comments the pro data center propaganda is working.
I think it would be 100% justified for this guy to firebombed the data center after a week if they don't fix it. They are assaulting his domicile. Stand your ground man
That's generous. Treat it like a raging house party. The police ask you nicely, once, within hours.
Their profits aren't anyone else's problem.
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