https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_WDzPyoqU
Nothing can stop this train.
My favourite comment.
"Sound engineer here, this report has a lot of misleading and wrong information. They show a cell phone SPL meter app, which is not almost guaraunteed to be uncalibrated and the results cannot be trusted. The 103 dBZ reading is well into concert-level audio, and would be unlivable for a home...not something that causes health issues, but more of an immediate danger to your hearing requiring you to leave NOW. (There is no way a datacenter is this loud at that range.) The claim that Texas has an 85 dB limit is not correct. The State does not have a limit statewide, and it is up to cities and counties to pass their own noise ordinances. It's true that 85 dBA is a common figure used in ordinances, but this figure is A-weighted, which means its a different scale than the SPL meter app shows in the video which is "Z" weighting, which means unweighted, and also adds another level of untrustworthiness to the figure, as there is no cutoff for frequencies outside of the range of human hearing....meaning this meter could be reading sounds that we cannot even hear, skewing the results further. The noise from a data center is not a "low frequency", but is a broadband noise which may contain low frequency energy, but not exclusively. This statement is misleading and tends to make me suspect the knowledge-level of the person making the statement.
The claims of too much noise affecting quality of life may be valid, but some of the facts presented were suspicious or downright incorrect."
