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Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by perching_aix on Sunday October 04, 2026 @08:45PM (#49959534)
I gave this half an hour video the first 10 minutes. He

- explicitly only wanted to eval the infrasound noise burden, which is not what the guy above was referring to here (the human audible noise burden; not that this would be pointless to check)

- played back a recording where the car door slamming was way louder than ambient

- showed that the place is pretty far away from residential areas

- did not actually confirm the source of the infrasound he did record

- did not disclose the actual dB SPL figures measured

- kept derailing to talk about other things he finds objectionable, to the extent that it felt like more time was spent on those than on the actual subject of the video.

If the remaining 20 minutes are like this too, then I'm not sure he's a reliable narrator or that this is actually valuable research, at least in this context.

Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by JimDabell on Monday October 05, 2026 @02:50AM (#49961460)
The video is nonsense. There’s an article that takes it down in detail here:

https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...

Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by rcxdude on Monday October 05, 2026 @04:38AM (#49962208)
I would have hoped people would have been inoculated against the 'infrasound is harmful' nonsense when it was used as a complaint against wind turbines.
Re:Improper redaction reveals Google Data Center water and e... by TeMPOraL on Monday October 05, 2026 @08:31AM (#49964003)
IDK, I remember reading something about infrasounds killing chickens in documentation of beep() function in Borland C++, so it must be true.