{"id":68366,"date":"2026-06-02T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T10:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=68366"},"modified":"2026-05-31T18:47:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-31T22:47:20","slug":"hyperscale-data-center-assault-pt-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2026\/06\/02\/hyperscale-data-center-assault-pt-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Hyperscale Data Center Assault (pt 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Noise Pollution: The Never-Ending Hum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Data centers don’t sleep. The WHO recommends nighttime noise below 40 dB<\/strong> to protect public health. A data center’s ambient hum alone can push 50\u201365 dB at the property line<\/strong> \u2014 every night, forever.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

HVAC Fans<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1\u20138 kHz whine \u2014 right where human hearing is most sensitive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chillers & Towers<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Low-frequency hum traveling through the ground and walls, perceptible hundreds of yards away<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diesel Generators<\/p>\n\n\n\n

85\u2013100+ dB at source, tested monthly under load<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Transformer Hum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

60 Hz plus harmonics at 120, 180, 240 Hz \u2014 notoriously hard to mitigate<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chronic low-frequency noise causes sleep disturbance, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive impairment in children.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“The WHO says nighttime noise above 40 decibels harms human health. This facility will run at 60-plus decibels \u2014 every single night, forever. That’s not a neighbor. That’s a health hazard.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Noise Pollution: The Never-Ending Hum Data centers don’t sleep. The WHO recommends nighttime noise below 40 dB to protect public health. A data center’s ambient hum alone can push 50\u201365… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68367,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNlwvMDVcL0dlbWluaV9HZW5lcmF0ZWRfSW1hZ2Vfcm9rdHBocm9rdHBocm9rdC53ZWJwP2ZpdD0xMDI0JTJDNTU5JnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiSHlwZXJzY2FsZSBEYXRhIENlbnRlciBBc3NhdWx0IChwdCAyKSIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiZG9pcyIsImZvbnQiOiIiLCJibG9nX2lkIjoxNjMwNDA2NjF9.aSJ26CfrA5qvKhszomRvUd-vQywAFvTqZKGDU0T1bgMMQ"},"version":2,"media_source":"sig","attached_media":[{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/jetpack.com\/redirect\/?source=sigenerate&query=t%3DeyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvbGFrZWxhbmRnYXpldHRlLmluZm9cL25ld3NcL3dwLWNvbnRlbnRcL3VwbG9hZHNcLzIwMjZcLzA1XC9HZW1pbmlfR2VuZXJhdGVkX0ltYWdlX3Jva3RwaHJva3RwaHJva3QtMTAyNHg1NTkud2VicCIsInR4dCI6Ikh5cGVyc2NhbGUgRGF0YSBDZW50ZXIgQXNzYXVsdCAocHQgMikiLCJ0ZW1wbGF0ZSI6ImRvaXMiLCJmb250IjoiIiwiYmxvZ19pZCI6MTYzMDQwNjYxfQ.BDW9EpWQuOjNlSuYq5pUyJrN9OpdY3LN8yACcUhVi2cMQ","type":"image\/jpeg"}]},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[14742],"class_list":["post-68366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","tag-hyperscale-data-center-assault-pt-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68366"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68368,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68366\/revisions\/68368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}