AI data centers face increasing complaints about inaudible but 'felt' infrasound — citizens complain high- and low-frequency sounds do not register on decibel meters but cause adverse health effects
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Imaginary_Cow_6379@reddit
Time actually wrote a really good article about this happening in a small town in Texas 2 years ago. It’s outright horrifying how this is being allowed to affect people. The article mentions children in this town getting sick from it too. Data centers are evil that we pay for.
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
Why do we need so many data centers? They seem to have more negative effects than positive. As I'm sure you know they also waste water and use a lot of energy.
Eponymous-Username@reddit
We must stay ahead of China in the race to make our citizens unemployed. This is absolutely critical in our efforts to make the absurdly wealthy even richer without having to actually deliver value to consumers or better anyone's lives in any measurable fashion.
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
When we are all unemployed the rich will let us have an UBI right...right?
Nolsoth@reddit
If by ubi you mean be homeless and starving then yes.
NoodleFish76@reddit
According to PragerU we’ll be happy as slaves trading back breaking labor for the finest accommodations. We can learn all the skills!
lizardhistorian@reddit
Christians built everything you value today.
Every single good thing in the world today exist because of Enlightened Christianity.
RaistlinMajeresRobes@reddit
"Enlightened Christianity' and it's you guys worshipping a pedo lmao ok champ
Eponymous-Username@reddit
You are not a Christian.
majbumper@reddit
Name checks out.
lizardhistorian@reddit
Have you tried being useful?
Imaginary_Cow_6379@reddit
Have you tried being Christian yourself? Jesus had a lot to say about taking care of the poor and not really that big a focus on hating different marginalized groups of people.
Individual_Land_2200@reddit
UBI = u be indigent
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
That's not what I meant but I'm sure that's what I'll get.
HughMungus77@reddit
“Just think of all the stuff we can do when AI gives you endless free time” was always a strange promise by the tech elite. They made it sound like we could just have an entire economy ran on artists, musicians, etc.
digdog303@reddit
Way too many people still believe that will be the outcome, without having any articulable roadmap for how we arrive there
imhereforthepuppies@reddit
And these people all think they’re gonna be the one lucky schmuck with a cushy job “maintaining the AI”
digdog303@reddit
"there will be new jobs that open up!" meanwhile musk openly talks about how replacing workers with bots would be worth trillions of dollars for whoever manages to do it first
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
Yeah, but I feel we knew they were lying, especially after people started using it for art, script writing, and other creative jobs.
flyinmonkees@reddit
That’s why they’re gutting the social safety net while eliminating jobs, to make room for all that UBI
Monarc73@reddit
My plan is to die in the opening salvo of the Climate Wars.
HommeMusical@reddit
My guess is that they won't actually let us all die. Think barracks and work camps.
BusyBanana4205@reddit
I hope in an act to be funny, our lords name the human glue they make us out of UBI adhesive.
03263@reddit
You will not even get an acre of land to work as a peasant farmer. In the old world if nobody want your labor you could always work for your own survival, now we don't even have that.
skippypinocho@reddit
I have heard those same argument made about staying ahead of China, and it is strange since The United States has more data centers than the next 9 countries combined! https://www.cargoson.com/en/blog/number-of-data-centers-by-country
lizardhistorian@reddit
So close yet so retarded.
AI will increase the quality of life of the common man more than the Republic and the Industrial Revolution combined.
We are about to have fusion power, AI, and are about to reach out and grasp the resources of the solar system.
This civilization is ending because we are about to level up - if you mfer have enough children.
PrepperIntel-ModTeam@reddit
Your posting was considered Non-constructive under rule 5 of r/PrepperIntel by the mods and has been removed.
digdog303@reddit
Mans has gone pro at poes law here
MrD3a7h@reddit
If you actually believe this, you are delusional.
Eponymous-Username@reddit
Here's hoping. No evidence any of that will be shared in a way that betters our lives so far. Just the very greediest people in the world ensuring they own the infrastructure, building it at the expense of the state near protesting residents.
Imaginary_Cow_6379@reddit
Why do you care about whether other people have kids or not? Gotta be honest if I didn’t already have kids thinking like this would make me wary af if theres people out there who want to somehow take ownership of my unborn kids as some part in their weird dystopian plan. Have all the kids you want yourself, just leave other people out of it.
abdallha-smith@reddit
Both usa and china is leading the race to extinction
truthputer@reddit
The short answer is that software companies realized that a 1-time purchase only gets them so much money, but if they can trick people into paying for an online subscription for the same software then the money line will go up forever.
pashalka31@reddit
This^
Debt, data, usury and the sexual assault Epsteins network is prolific at are just slight variations of slavery.
Now they just overlap.
That governor just signed legislation banning VPN's and demanding ID snapshots for porn sites. They are using the data to generate kompromat for control of the people. Each with their own account that the slave pays for monthly.
Its the company store. Just executed to make it seem like it was your choice because you signed a terms and conditions agreement.
It's Biblical and Darwinian at the same time.
https://www.reddit.com/r/401jK/s/B65iO3CnmG
Randomly-Generated21@reddit
Right. Their Techno Feudalism is just a company town on steroids. You’ll get to live in whatever fiefdom you like and you’re free to move, but you won’t own anything so you can’t sell anything or take anything with you when you leave. It’s complete insanity. And MAGA is too idiotic to see what these supervillains are doing to our country (Trump included).
pashalka31@reddit
The greatest con of all time.
But it's the same basic story as the new York real estate developer who comes west and convinces the naive ones that he is their friend.
2 days later his buddies show up and no one sitting at the card table realizes that every one of the billionaires at the game is on the same team and coordinating behind the scenes to take their land, money and daughters.
The russians even made a game of it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mafia_(party_game)
EpsteinandTrump@reddit
Yep. The 'cloud' is just a 'PC' somewhere else.
RichieLT@reddit
You’ll have nothing and like it.
Melech333@reddit
This is it right here.
03263@reddit
We don't need them. If anything we need to do more with less, reduce bloat and make software more efficient. Run more locally instead of "in the cloud" aka data centers.
mystery_biscotti@reddit
If it can't run on a battery powered in the PNW by solar, I probably don't need it. 😅
pashalka31@reddit
Look at the cap table of who is building them.
Larry Ellison is Oracle. He is also one of the principals of the zionist Mafia.
https://www.reddit.com/r/401jK/s/B65iO3CnmG
And you will understand why they are in such a money is no object to get them all built before the world's working class wakes up.
Firefly10886@reddit
Was just reading up on Kevin O’Learys in northern Utah. Going to be the largest one on the planet.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/05/04/utah-data-center-final-vote-box/
pashalka31@reddit
Its insanity. There is no water and no fuel. Just spinning extracted fossil fuel into heat and noise.
Energy is not created or destroyed. Just rearranged. It doesn't leave our atmosphere. So we are effectively supercharging the capacitor between the earths surface and the ionosphere. It's the earth sized equivalent of walking into the back of a Walmart, tuning each car stereo to a different station, and cranking them all to 100 while sitting on a nuclear space heater.
All so some billioniares don't have to be held accountable for the crimes that made them billioniares.
neonlexicon@reddit
That's an absolutely terrible spot to be pumping that much extra heat into the air too, because when it hits the cooler air that comes down from the north along the Rockies, it's just going to throw more fuel into the storm systems that keep producing all of these dangerous supercells.
AliceCode@reddit
It's not going to have that much of an effect on weather systems.
neonlexicon@reddit
I like to create Looney Tunes style visuals in my head for stuff, where the biggest data center in the US might be the feather that gently lands on the truck full of Acme explosives that's currently teetering over the edge of the cliff. The balance is already so delicate.
BayouGal@reddit
It’s going to be the size of Rhode Island.
AliceCode@reddit
It's going to be the size of Manhattan, not Rhode Island.
pashalka31@reddit
Exactly.
Convective heat output of that data center is something like 230 atomic explosions per day.
Which, tracking the capex of corruption in reverse explains why the governor Cox signed a deal with trump to sell the salt lake as federal land.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.abc4.com/news/great-salt-lake/utah-legislature-resolution-transfer-gsl-land-federal-government/&ved=2ahUKEwivvdC2sLGUAxXRJ0QIHQ4WEcwQFnoECCUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3mdetMeNUNILS7a8prVrBm
HommeMusical@reddit
I upvoted, but one quibble:
A data center takes incoming power, which is very low entropy and transforms it into low entropy calculations and a lot of waste heat energy, which is high entropy. It is the Second Law of Thermodynamics in action.
This has nothing do with electrical energy, like in a capacitor.
What's happening is nothing so fancy as the car radios. We're simply cooking ourselves.
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
Wow. The politicians are just ignoring the citizens, I'm not shocked.
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
This is why they have bunkers. They are going to go hide there when we wake up and use whatever tech they have against us.
neonlexicon@reddit
Iran has shown us how weak a lot of this tech is when faced with asymmetrical warfare. They've been building a ton of data centers on farmland in areas all throughout tornado alley. They've been building bunkers in areas near giant fault lines. If we can't finish the job, nature will get them eventually.
Monarc73@reddit
Define "we" in this context.
ParallelPlayArts@reddit
Humans collectively as a society, not dependent on imaginary lines meant to divide us even though we are all human, since this stuff isn't just going to change things in America.
Monarc73@reddit
Well, in that sense, we don't need this shit. It is actually against our collective best interest.
Excellent_Revenue235@reddit
To house the surveillance footage used to control us
TankiesAreWeird@reddit
It isn't really just data centers existing but the new ones designed for AI being worse. Also not really designed to resolve water usage or infra sound problems.
They want more data centers as part of the AI bubble. The same data centers would be used for more automated surveillance nonsense and data collection.
HughMungus77@reddit
Because a huge portion of the US is currently being supported by investments AI or AI-involved companies. So much money has been invested that if nothing lucrative comes on the back end we would likely see another Great Depression. Obviously there are other major factors like eliminating human workforce from the supply chain and autonomous tracking of citizens. The main one though is monetary, at a basic level AI tokens are just another resource like timber or minerals that are sold on the global market. No difference long term between having massive data centers and destroying habitats for aggressive strip mining
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
Because data centers are where all of your photos, videos, and electronic health records are stored. Cloud storage isn't actually in the cloud somewhere. It's in a data center. While there are AI data centers being proposed, not every single one is. That's why it's important to know the details of a proposal near you. (Also, the guy pushing infrasound as a concept is a grifter.)
HommeMusical@reddit
Wot? No. Infrasound, itself, is very real and was even brought into the film theatres in 1974 [with Earthquake!, using Sensurround.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthquake_(1974_film))
I saw this with the Sensurround and it was impressive!, and today probably 90% of the attractions in Disney and the like use some sort of infrasound. They aren't spending those big bucks on pushing all that low frequency air around for nothing. :-D
Now, the adult human ear only operates between around 20Hz and 15KHz, more if you're young and haven't been exposed to loud sounds, so you don't hear infrasound, but you can definitely detect it with your body.
I am extremely sensitive to low frequencies, but luckily, I nearly always like them. I once called my landlord and said, "Hey, there's some low frequency hum coming from the boiler, you should check it out, and a few days later he knocked on the door and told me that the pump was failing and in a week or two it would have been all over the floor. (He was a good landlord, how rare, which is why I stayed there for 14 years.)
A memory: we have friends who live over the world's busiest commerical canal, the Amsterdam-Rhine Canal. Because of strict regulation and enforcement, it's surprisingly quiet, I used to bike up and down there all the time. But when we sat in the building, you could occasionally feel ultra-low-frequencies for some really large engine operating, and you could step out on the balcony and see what behemoth was causing it, and see some calm monster cruise quietly by - it's pretty astonishing how much can be towed down a canal if it's geometrically straight. (My wife and I would also hang out in the polders not so far away, where you see huge boats going by, floating on a water level many meters above where you are sitting...)
JudgmentUnited5297@reddit
It's funny. I have a sensory processing difference, so I can often taste/smell/hear things at the margins and have spent several decades just accepting that most people just won't believe me. Really can't imagine this on a community wide scale. This has some pretty profound mental health effects on top of the damage from the sound itself.
thekbob@reddit
Did you not read the article? Infrasound as a concept isn't a grift.
iridescent-shimmer@reddit
I read basically the same article posted yesterday, and the "research" on this is the same guy/source. It's the same person who is anti-wind turbines too.
lizardhistorian@reddit
The minimum benefit to mankind from AI is $800T over the next twenty years, using engineering assistance tooling we already have today. I stress again that +$800T is the minimum.
India is freaking the fuck out because AI is going to end their IT economy and all of the FUD comes from the.
In the race to AI, if you are not first, y're last.
BusyBanana4205@reddit
To take our jobs, of course. You won’t have to live next to a datacenter when you can’t afford a home.
dubious_capybara@reddit
-message conveyed via data centre
lizardhistorian@reddit
lol, bitch please. Time magazine?
When Time tells you everything is amazing and there is nothing to worry about and the United States is the greatest country on Earth - that is when you know the world is about to end.
Imaginary_Cow_6379@reddit
Do you think a small town in Texas is more likely to be a hotbed of liberalism or more republicans there?
clauderbaugh@reddit
From a personal aspect, as someone that is looking to move to somewhere out in the country for some peace and quiet, maybe with some land and privacy - basically my last home ever, it terrifies me that I'll find something that fits perfectly, invest a great deal into it from working my whole life, only to have a giant data center buy the farm or wooded land next to me and kill the serenity, the water, the environment, the property value and just about everything else it touches. It has me shopping differently now because these things are popping up wherever there seems to be open space and little resistance.
Embarrassed-Clue183@reddit
Also this happens from the large underground oil and gas pipelines. Oscillations in the system cause high intensity infrasound... :(
dementeddigital2@reddit
Buy far away from a power plant or substation and far away from sources of water. That's no guarantee either, but it's the best I've got.
Ecliphon@reddit
It sounds like the only solution is to buy a massive amount of acreage and never let them buy any part of it.
clauderbaugh@reddit
I'm waiting for governments to start declaring eminent domain on large tracts of private land for data centers like they do for airports and utilities.
wat3rm370n@reddit
They're already doing that for the power lines in pennsylvania
https://youtu.be/4uwPkCtSKys?si=DhNJz95UiDhTJpsB
wat3rm370n@reddit
That's what's happened in Pennsylvania to a lot of people.
This article's from 2-1/2 years ago:
https://www.dailymail.com/news/article-12860009/PENNSYLVANIA-BITCOIN-SALEM-TALEN-Susquehanna-TERAWULF.html
MessyHighlands@reddit
We just had a town moratorium put into place locally this week on data center permits. It was the first attempt to inflict one on us.
We got the other locals energized and educated on outcomes, did a petition, and 400 people showed up to the town meeting (building only fit 150). So that’s one local town, but I expect a cascading effect. If we let one get in they will know they can cow us.
You can also do this in your rural place. Remember to include how it can negatively affect hunting as conservation is a big crossover for right/left regardless of the reason. Be vigilant.
Pando5280@reddit
Same situation. Been watching a couple small towns for years and two now have a giant data center where it used to be nature. All sorts of discontent in those areas now.
Wise-Force-1119@reddit
That's terrible. Can I ask what general part of the country you're looking at? Out West it's mostly happening on leased public lands 😞 or in industrial zoned areas.
Pando5280@reddit
Central appalachia. Two small tourist towns and theyre building one right in between near a nature preserve wetland area. The state has basically stripped towns and counties of the abilityto sue and all the revenue goes to the state. (used to live in rural mountains of Colorado and saw that Wyoming was building a nuclear powered one which I wouldnt want to be anywhere near)
canigetahint@reddit
I would imagine that there is a lot of sound pressure being created in those, audible or not. Between the drives A LOT OF DRIVES!), GPUs, cooling pumps and generators, all that sound pressure is being compounded and radiating outward. Doesn't really surprise me that people feel it and start to feel ill. It's akin to those that feel the subsonic waves just before an earthquake.
Doc891@reddit
i firmly believe that once we find these things, we should be able to sue the people who were on the town council that decided on this even though the evidence for it being a bad idea was right in front of them. They were warned, they still did something that would harm their community. I believe they should be held responsible. A giant mega corp doesnt care, but those small individuals whose greed weighed heavier than the wishes of their constituants should have to think twice before making a decision that goes against their wishes. Just my small 2 cents.
EquivalentPapaya3254@reddit
It's not just the data centers that emit this "felt" vibrations (sound). Power, gas, cable lines and the electronics around us all do too.
Tinfoil_cobbler@reddit
Is there a way to measure this phenomenon?
thepianoman456@reddit
I imagine it sucks like experiencing a large subwoofer 2nd hand in residential.
Zealousideal_Rub5826@reddit
I don't understand. Computer fans are high frequency. What would make a low frequency oscillation?
dittybopper_05H@reddit
It all depends on how they are powered and how they are cooled. You can have larger systems that have resonances below human hearing.
Having said that, if this was a really major issue, it would affect the employees of these data centers the most. If you're 5 miles away and having issues, but the employees and people who live closer aren't, it's almost certainly not the data center.
Pando5280@reddit
I've noticed that people who grow up in noise producing environments arent as impacted by it. If you grow up or spend years in nature and thats your normal your body and stress levels react differently than if you've been conditioned from birth with the hum of city life as your normal. (live in a smallntownbthat has a lot of construction going on and its amazing how much people hate the noise and disruotion to their environment as opposed to city folks who are just used to it)
dittybopper_05H@reddit
The reverse can also true: If you take someone out of a noisy urban environment and have them in a quiet rural or wilderness environment, the lack of noise can unnerve them, because it's not "normal".
I've seen it happen.
Pando5280@reddit
No doubt. Had city friends who get nervous when theres more trees than people. Honestly think horror movies contribute to that mentality.
JudgmentUnited5297@reddit
Which person has the NDA? The employee or the town resident?
dittybopper_05H@reddit
I've been in IT now for 37 years. I've never had to sign an NDA about the work conditions or my health. Ever. At two manufacturers (one for medical devices, one for fabric), a data company, a private college, and a public university.
JudgmentUnited5297@reddit
Considering the current climate, I wouldn't be shocked if the few people working there are either wrapped up that way, or otherwise intimidated.
dittybopper_05H@reddit
Of course you'd think that, because you're predisposed to believe in conspiracies.
JudgmentUnited5297@reddit
It's remarkable what you can accomplish with a pool of thousands of qualified applicants and a Lexus social media search. They'd look for a gaslighter with a similar profile to yours. Probably why you've never seen an NDA in your life.
dittybopper_05H@reddit
You're implying I'm gaslighting. *CLASSIC* conspiracy theory behavior.
JudgmentUnited5297@reddit
You're sure that all of these people are lying. Sounds about right for someone who is on year 37 of a career.
Ecliphon@reddit
Of course you’d assume that, you’ve never signed an NDA so they don’t exist.
dittybopper_05H@reddit
Actually, I have. From back when I was a ditty bopper, and I had to sign a huge NDA that had, IIRC, a punishment of 10 years in jail and $10,000 fine for violating it, because I held a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Don't assume what you don't know.
But again, that wasn't about work conditions, it was about the work itself.
turmeric212223@reddit
Data centers don’t tend to have more than a couple employees.
dittybopper_05H@reddit
No, they have to have significantly more than 2.
Even a small facility, the kind that wouldn't have issues with infrasound, will have several people working. You have to, simply to replace equipment that is going bad. And to perform ongoing upgrades. They aren't simply static facilities that once built don't require maintenance. Not only do you have to keep the servers running, you have to make sure the power, air conditioning, etc. is working.
The big facilities that are likely the ones having this kind of an issue: Larger systems will have lower resonances, and more of them will mean that even if they don't create infrasound individually, there are more chances for there to be a "beat frequency" that is below human hearing.
Big facilities will have dozens of workers. The ones with multiple large facilities on a campus, will have hundreds.
packingtown@reddit
It’s going to be really hilarious when corporate finally understands that non-deterministic LLMs can’t be trusted to replace humans and these data centers have even less of an excuse to exist.
Instead of waiting a little while for the software to become more efficient or for a better solution, they spent our entire GDP on building these evil monstrosities.
Then factor in the fact that people are definitely going to be attempting to burn them down until that happens.
dodekahedron@reddit
As someone who is sensitive to low frequencies this is something ive been trying to explain for years now.
I personally have issues with modern day stereos emitting too much bass. I can feel my neighbors car. Hes like 5 or 6 houses down. Feel it thru my walls, over my tv. Ballistic headphones dont help.
Sends me into a panic attack.
Desperately need to move. But where? Everywhere is getting data centers. Where is going to be safe from noise. 🥲
HommeMusical@reddit
I am very sensitive to low frequencies, so let me give you some advice, based on how I learned to get better at accepting heat.
Many years ago, I had a roommate who was pathologically bad at hot weather. He had to have a fan, A/C if he could afford it, he was constantly sipping ice water, the whole schtick. I realized one day that I should do exactly the reverse - I should invite the heat, accept it, relax.
And this has worked for me pretty well.
In the same way, you should learn to accept your talent.
The ability to perceive these low frequencies is a gift and allows you to experience things that most other people can't. What I do is this: I identify the sound, then I try to visualize where it is and how or or if it is moving, and then I just pop it into a little mental bucket, "Truck driving a block away," and filter it into the same place that all the other noises I can sort of hear go: "not important". If it bothers me a bit, I review my mental map of all the noises, and try to put it back in the, "Two blocks away" box on that map.
Also, when it's noisy, I have a constant stream of music during the say, and white noise at night.
However, if there's a bass when I'm trying to sleep, I am doomed, even if it's incredibly far away. "[Pause.] Maybe they stopped! Oh no, "Whole Lotta Love", and then I play through the whole song with them."
dodekahedron@reddit
Yeah that bs might work for the occasional noise but not the constant onslaught of an asshole with a subwoofer.
I do not believe in radical acceptance. Full stop.
liltinypete@reddit
Outright denying radical acceptance? 😂 😂
dodekahedron@reddit
Its akin to "fake it til you make it"
And "just ignore your problems"
Just accept things and move on.
But some things can't be moved on from.
The day I stop trying and radically accept things is the day I die.
liltinypete@reddit
I think the things you find you can’t move on from are the perfect examples of being too rigid.
Fluidity and learning coping mechanisms and actually applying the therapy is what separates… well, yeah
dodekahedron@reddit
I cant move on from 9 herniated thoracic discs and a handful of lumbar ones. 👍
liltinypete@reddit
Your refusal to accept your physical temple is entirely up to you. However, people have accepted far worse fates for their bodies so I’d argue YOU may not be able too. Which is fair, that sounds like it might be a daily battle
dodekahedron@reddit
Ah yes. Let me just radically accept this intolerable pain level in this current environment where they wont RX pain meds. I cant even get an anti inflammatory RXed.
I can get modalities. Pt, chiro, dry needling, mental therapy. I can accept that its time to try pharmaceuticals.
I can get sent to Mayo, but no one is like "hey lets try this first"
Besides i refuse to radically accept the current everything else in this timeline.
I refuse to radically accept data centers.
I refuse to radically accept increasingly less greenspaces.
I refuse to radically accept countries bombing other countries.
We can do better and we must. I do not consent to any of this and wont radically accept it.
dodekahedron@reddit
If it worked, I wouldn't need therapy.
liltinypete@reddit
Well ya have to do it correctly babes, but sounds like you did try
DirtyScatBoy85@reddit
Movies now seem to have a low rumbling noise through the score. It hurts my ears. There is no silence anymore
dodekahedron@reddit
Yeeeees
I can barely stand it at my house.
I only go to a theater when my kid begs. Then I use the ALDs (headphones) to stream the movie right to my ears to help
hera-fawcett@reddit
makes sense. we know that sound waves can be dangerous (lrads) enough to incapacitate a person. and that less powerful sound waves can cause humans to experience nausea and discomfort. while longterm exposure hasnt super been covered, we know that noise pollution is a hazard in general.
stopusingyallweirdo@reddit
I keep seeing so many ads for trivial AI tools by Reddit. In this post too.
Why are unnecessary forms of AI being pushed so hard onto the average person when it's already overused on a corporate / industrial scale? Do they need all of the hokey app usages to train the data?
Professional-Art8449@reddit
I know any use of AI is the enemy of the sub, but the only useful AI I have found is using the chat bots as a "smart" web search. Google by itself has become trash and the AI summary is very often just extremely wrong. So I find I have to use Gemini to search something and then double check it. And it can be pretty handy to find some obscure information without requiring a myself to wade through pages of forum posts etc to find my answer.
But other then that AI has been nothing but glitchy, unwanted B.S. and really I wouldn't even need it to search the web if they didn't royally fuck up and pollute web browser results to begin with.
TheUniverseOrNothing@reddit
On Reddit when you mention AI they automatically think of ChatGPT and some idiotic conversation they had with it or someone else experiences.
They don’t realize half the problem is the user not understanding how to ask or utilize LLM’s properly. An educated person with common sense can really benefit.
That being said, doctors are using AI. Right now my local doctor and probably someone in your area has AI recording the entire session so it can help the doctor.
AI technologies are used in airplanes that your life is in the hands of. It does EXTREMELY well and is far better than a human. Look into the technology for the g600 and how when you are flying in a storm it won’t even let you overcorrect and knows all the calculations to help the human be safe.
So you got Reddit users crying about the lowest bar possible for AI usage then you got 70 million planes pushing the capabilities of human tech to next level.
Ai will continue to evolve. Data centers will be built off world, use closed water systems to reduce water consumption… I don’t support them necessarily but I see a future where we start to make them peacefully exist within our ecosystem.
03263@reddit
I was looking for a solution to keep a journal with a calendar and image attachments and there's even so many apps like this that include AI features. For something traditionally done on a piece of paper.
I think I'll just keep emailing myself.
CursedFeanor@reddit
Or you'll do like everyone else and vibe code your own version!
lizardhistorian@reddit
More India FUD bullshit because they don't want their IT industry replaced by AI.
WaffleHouseGladiator@reddit
I saw a video where residents near a newly built data center started getting sick and it got worse when they went outside. A local official went around to people's houses to assure them it wasn't the data center making them sick. He started getting sick when he went near it, so he stopped going near it. It could be the infrasound, but it could also be emissions from the generators that the run constantly. Also, these data centers pollute local water supplies. They're a blight on communities. I don't understand why they can't be built in the middle of nowhere.
albusdumbbitchdor@reddit
They can't be built in the middle of nowhere because then the corpos building them would have to build, maintain, and invest in the infrastructure and energy needed to keep them running. Much better to take advantage of predicting infrastructure and subsidize energy costs onto local communities.
edwardphonehands@reddit
I figure they have to be in commuting range of housing for some onsite engineers and admins. Trades can have a longer drive and housekeeping and security can sleep rough.
stopusingyallweirdo@reddit
Are the middles of nowhere being used to test nuclear weapons?
Mysterious-Outcome37@reddit
Benn Jordan did a video on this and tested the infrasounds (<20hz).
Regumate@reddit
link to video for the lazy like me
Mysterious-Outcome37@reddit
Thank you, I usually post links but was about to fall asleep!
Thoraxe474@reddit
And what was the result
Haunting_Lime2296@reddit
IguessIllMakeAnAcnt@reddit
6 Month old account.
Haunting_Lime2296@reddit
5year old account. Ewww
Professional-Art8449@reddit
Account age gaps 🥵
Haunting_Lime2296@reddit
lol 🤣 everyone’s a critic these days I don’t even know what I did wrong to that guy
WeenyDancer@reddit
It was incredibly loud (as in, high dB, even though the frequency was outside human hearing range). Making people sick, etc. He could feel it and detect it with expensive equipment that can detect down to those sub-audible to human fequencies. Consumer grade dB meters and apps can't detect at those frequencies, so it takes specialty ($$$) equipment.
pashalka31@reddit
Know what else ran at 10 hz?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DwB_jiigRq-c&ved=2ahUKEwjZ5ZKZsrCUAxWcJe8CHXxZHFkQwqsBegQIFRAB&usg=AOvVaw3S9akkUdUe9WtBKpufUxXa
Apprehensive-Mine364@reddit
I have a homelab and it can be an issue.
I slept next to a server with earmuffs on for almost a year when I was younger and I think that reduced the sensitivity of my hearing.
The main issue I see now is how this affects not just people near data centers, but also this has to affect the computer hardware. Remember sound is a wave , it has frequency just like WiFi or radar....and this can't be good for the actually chips and communication.... Or the poor datacenter employees.
I think my old servers produce a lot of higher frequencies but the newer switch I have does both the low and higher frequency I can't hear which makes it uncomfortable to work on.
At the end of the day this is an engineering problem, and I just know it can be solved if we work on it as an industry.
hillierprotech@reddit
We'll have AI look into solutions
37iteW00t@reddit
https://youtu.be/_bP80DEAbuo?si=CVok61D1iK6qw-i7