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No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by ramesh31 »

ksec wrote: post #6
djohnston wrote: post #5

Wow that video of the house next to the mine in Arkansas is nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrkZtuVPdU&embeds_referring... I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.

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. And last time I went to a Datacentre it may be an eye sore but it doesn't produce any noise at all. Do all DC in US produce noise like that?

>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.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by justaguitarist »

ImJasonH wrote: post #9

This link doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, but here's the same article in the local paper: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/ohio-to...

I wish the Dispatch was still local but it was bought out a while ago. They pretend to be but it's gone significantly downhill since.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by ericmay »

ImJasonH wrote: post #9

This link doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, but here's the same article in the local paper: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/ohio-to...

Thank you - I'm not sure what happened. I know the Dispatch is owned or affiliated with USA Today, and given the paywall I copied the link to post it here with an Archive URL too, but somehow USAToday.com was copied to my clipboard from their site.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by thepryz »

ksec wrote: post #6
djohnston wrote: post #5

Wow that video of the house next to the mine in Arkansas is nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrkZtuVPdU&embeds_referring... I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.

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. And last time I went to a Datacentre it may be an eye sore but it doesn't produce any noise at all. Do all DC in US produce noise like that?

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.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by ActionHank »

ramesh31 wrote: post #11
ksec wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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. And last time I went to a Datacentre it may be an eye sore but it doesn't produce any noise at all. Do all DC in US produce noise like that?

>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.

That's the "capitalism" these politicians are referring to when they are saying they're "pro-capitalism". They're saying that they're very much in support of people with money doing whatever they want to people without.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by hnuser123456 »

djohnston wrote: post #5

Wow that video of the house next to the mine in Arkansas is nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHrkZtuVPdU&embeds_referring... I would legitimately have driven my car through that building if I lived here.

That sounds like hundreds of 40mm or 80mm fans running at 5000rpm. You can get a lot more airflow with less wasted power by using larger slower fans... and they won't wear out as fast.

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by arethuza »

ActionHank wrote: post #15
ramesh31 wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>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.

That's the "capitalism" these politicians are referring to when they are saying they're "pro-capitalism". They're saying that they're very much in support of people with money doing whatever they want to people without.

'What do I care about law? Ain't I got the power?'

Cornelius Vanderbilt

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by guardiangod »

delfinom wrote: post #4

>The Amazon centers are property tax-abated for 10 years, providing instead 1.5% income tax on workers via a joint economic development agreement with Marysville. After construction, a small fraction of workers remain to be taxed, she said. Lol, gotta love the scam. Small town politicians must get some amazing bribes. >While under construction about a year ago, a worker at the Warren Road Amazon facility was crushed…

>You immediately arrest have any employee interfering with emergency response and throw them in jail.

Imagine that you work for a 3 letter US agency and is storing confidential data on AWS. Would you allow random individuals (yes even for emergency personnel) to have unfetter access to your computation and storage systems? What about health data? What about data belonging to other countries? Do you do a sweep for unauthorized remote access device after the incident?

Re: No more data centers: Ohio township pushes back against influx of Amazon, others

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Post by Spivak »

justaguitarist wrote: post #12
ImJasonH wrote: post #9

This link doesn't seem to work for me for some reason, but here's the same article in the local paper: https://www.dispatch.com/story/news/local/2025/09/08/ohio-to...

I wish the Dispatch was still local but it was bought out a while ago. They pretend to be but it's gone significantly downhill since.

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.
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