> On Jun 23, 2023, at 15:17, Sean Donelan <s...@donelan.com> wrote:
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> Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers
There’s probably close to that number in the South Bay Area of California as
well.
> The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from cooling
> towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers.
I get it, but reality is that at most datacenter, this noise simply disappears
once you get much outside of the parking lot. Especially if there’s a busy
roadway anywhere nearby.
> The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers
That does seem rather silly… We don’t have those in California.
> The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the
> entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage tower
> corridors for data centers.
Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly
planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many
datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid
stability.
> And if you didn't know, some VC-funded companies can be a**-holes and not
> known for being good neighbors or anything besides making money.
Oh, yeah… We have those here too.
> And yes, I helped design & build several early data centers in NOVA :-)
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> https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet/
No doubt.
Owen
