No. Hyperscale data centers like those discussed in the article are usually evaporative cooled and tend to be relatively quiet outside the building unless they are running generators due to testing or utility outages. You may hear a low pitched fan hum if the data center is running hot or they need to purge the air inside for another reason. Assuming you have competent controls and facilities engineers, that should be pretty rare.

I have heard sounds like that from AI/ML host racks, but that's inside the datahall, which makes me wonder what kind of building and cooling design they have.

I've been never to one that sounds like that, but I've only been to a handful of small ones. I would imagine a company crude enough to set it up so close to someone's house isn't doing any sort of noise abatement either.

>How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5.

Because the people who live there voted for the kind of people who would allow it to happen. And they'll do it again, every time.

It's Arkansas which follows the golden rule, those who have the gold set the rules.

> How is that legal in US? I am pretty sure that is not legal is many part of the world even if the sound was only on from 9 to 5.

It's probably not legal, although this is an area of law that is generally delegated to the most local levels of governments, so the details will vary based on where exactly you're located. There's going to be a catch-all public nuisance ordinance this would fall under, although there may also be a specific noise ordinance that this is violating.

In the US, corporate wrongs trump human rights.

It's in a poor Republican state, so you can get away with all kinds of things.

That is pretty typical of these miners, typically 1U type designs.

Heres a newer model from Bitmain https://bitmain.digital/antminers/antminer-s19pro/index.html

Then they need to have staff on site that is fully qualified to handle any type of emergency any time there is anyone at all in the facility, which they don't.

I've never experienced it but I've been told that if an emergency responder needs to enter an area where classified information is stored you let them in, escort them, and security will debrief them and have them sign an NDA after the fact if they saw any classified information.

Well the thing with emergency services needing emergency access right now is that Amazon would have needed to think about that at an earlier stage.

If that’s what they are storing, they can do what many other government agencies are doing and staff their own first responders.

…and why should the local fire department care about those concerns?

If the first responders can draw guns on the DataCenter and it can’t defend itself, it’s not worthy of being declared a TLA site.

So you let them in with an eyes on, constant escort.

I like the part where people suddenly realize just how much gate you would need to stop 30 tons of fire truck.

Most facilities don’t have it. Those that do have their own medical personnel (and tanks, usually).

I think you raise a good point. Everything from local newspapers, local TV news, HOA and rental management, and even community sports programs are increasingly run by national organizations that have no connection to the local community and no interest in the community aside from extracting money.

Focusing on just the media side of things, you already see how easy it is to spread propaganda and it's only getting worse with SkyDance's merger with CBS. Not sure I have any answers here, but it's definitely a problem we need to solve sooner rather than later.

Not at all the same caliber but one of the Dispatch editors left to go make The Clintonville Spotlight and other local neighborhood papers if you want some actually local news.