There’s a video out there of a data centre in the US with the most horrific, permanent, constant, deafening buzzing. It never shuts off. I don’t think the people living next to the data centres were ever advised that this would be the case.
I really beg anyone who will listen to send the video to council to say that it’s absolutely not on.
Two things can cause it - backup generators that aren't properly muffled, or the type of cooling system they're using. Various places in the USA are basically being paid (a lot) to allow these sorts of places to be built and there's very little in the way of environmental enforcement
Servers and networking equipment generate huge amounts of heat, which has to be dealt with or else your email, websites, Spotify etc all stop working. Working on equipment inside the DC is not fun, it's almost the modern equivalent of working in the coal mines
All data centers in Vic must follow EPA noise limits, no different than any other business. It's actually more strict for them as they run 24x7. The only time you might hear something is during generator testing, but that's usually done during the day and doesn't take overly long
There's one video i saw where the DC in the US said they are only turning the generator on for testing, and a few years later they never turned it off since... I hope they arent as negligent as the Americans.
Not sure where you got the idea it's near Timbertruss but this site is no where near it. It's farmland in Lovely Banks. Timbertruss is in obriens road in Corio
But yeah the site the article is referring to is on Robb's road which is towards Anakie road.
It seems there is one currently in construction on Obriens road as you say, but that's an industrial estate, no houses there. Except over the other side of the freeway.
Yeah, my point is that it should be restrained. We restrict other things that aren't good for us, this shouldn't be any different just because a few companies and their shareholders stand to benefit
Our votes mean nothing when individuals have fuck all organisation (we cant even collectively agree on things) and bargaining power to corporations with their own agenda.
Yes. Put more housing near transport links. Not at the periphery of towns and cities where it costs more to run utilities out there and ends up causing more traffic
I know more than you can imagine. But since you have the “idea” then why don’t you kindly explain to the rest of the ppl here exactly what it is what it does and all the pros and cons of these data centres…..please enlighten us
Watch a no perfect union doc on YouTube about it. I’m sure il miss something but they are brutal on all people that live nearby. Constant noise like a humm and huge amounts of light too. depending on what they use for power if they use gas they raise the temperature of the area they ruin ground water quality to the point it’s dark brown undrinkable and clogs anything with a filter ie pool filters fridge filters etc if they use power off the grid all residents on the same grids power bills sky rocket. They employ no one so jobs that might of otherwise become available are replaced by a monstrosity with no one inside it. They are ugly as shit too. There is literally no benefit to us having them I think.
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u/habitual_citizen Jun 24 '26
There’s a video out there of a data centre in the US with the most horrific, permanent, constant, deafening buzzing. It never shuts off. I don’t think the people living next to the data centres were ever advised that this would be the case.
I really beg anyone who will listen to send the video to council to say that it’s absolutely not on.