[redox99]

What's the tremendous externality of gas generators? People heat their own homes with natural gas and it's no big deal. How can a datacenter that is miles away be worse than that?

[coliveira]

How can something that is a million times bigger than your home be any different, right?

[m4rtink]

Its totally inefficient - burning the same gas in a co-generation plant, ideally combined with district heating, would produce the same amount of pollution and basically make use of all the energy.

[jLaForest]

The gas furnace in my basement don't have a massive jet turbine emiting high frequency noise

[alex_duf]

It's the low frequencies that's more of an issue apparently. Benn Jordan has a great series of videos about it, including one on Colossus

[redox99]

I wouldn't call noise pollution a "tremendous externality". The gas turbines should just be placed far enough from where people live.

[ben_w]

Should, but in fact are too close.

[redox99]

It's not a tremendous externality. It only affects a very small group that lives nearby.

A tremendous externality was leaded gas that was everywhere.