[bob1029]

The most annoying part of this for me is that acoustic treatment is usually unbelievably effective if you make even the slightest attempt at applying it. A box lined with mineral wool is not exactly an expensive or complicated engineering solution.

I see this kind of ignorance everywhere. Rooms where people suffer all day every day that could be made 10x more comfortable with $50 of treatment and literally 30 minutes of labor. Same thinking applies to these hyperscalars. There are some frequency ranges that are more difficult to control (infrasonic), but those are not typically found in a datacenter site.

[breakpointalpha]

At a minimum the data center should be responsible for paying for noise mitigation on all houses within a half mile of the site.

That work could be done within a few months, upgrade all the window treatments, replace all doors with solid core, add sound mitigation fencing, etc.

[bob1029]

The problem with noise is that it follows inverse square law. It is several orders of magnitude more efficient to simply abate the noise at the source.

[K0balt]

The salvaged aviation turbines are the majority of the issue. Non turbine-powered data centers mostly are reasonably quiet.