23 Jun
2023
23 Jun
'23
6:17 p.m.
Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers. The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers 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. 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. And yes, I helped design & build several early data centers in NOVA :-) https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-vir...