Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, just filed a lawsuit against a data center that allegedly generates a high-pitched whining sound — and has done so 24/7 for the past two years.
The data center, which is owned by Alliance Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, used to be an industrial building that sat behind a row of pine trees across the street from the most affected residents, according to ABC-affiliateWXYZ. The site started development in 2018 and was eventually turned into a cryptocurrency mining center in 2021. But in 2024, something changed drastically when the building started emitting noise pollution around the clock. Residents say it sounds like a vacuum cleaner in their living room, and the company has offered to buy up homes from unhappy residents.
The company said that it’s planning to expand its operations in the footprint in the area
Residents say it sounds like a vacuum cleaner in their living room, and the company has offered to buy up homes from unhappy residents.
Very convenient for them that they converted their data centre into a property value destroyer before making this offer. I’m sure that’s coincidental.
Don’t sell!!! Sue the fuck out of them until they leave.
I’ve heard there are other ways to be sure.
In a totally unrelated note, Have you ever noticed how pretty fire can be?
What are they offering to buy the homes with, highly volatile shares of the AI companies stock, or millions of tokens they can use the AI with?
I’m sure at a fair price.
sure! $600,000,000 please.
it’s prime land, if they invest now, they can build another datacenter on it.
When was the last time you dusted out your computer case?
I wonder what’s the number of people affected by this in the local area, and how much greater that number is in comparison to the security force of the data center. Maybe if a town went scorched earth on one of these, we’d start seeing some material changes in how they do business…
