Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town (time.com) 212
Longtime Slashdot reader ArchieBunker shares a report from TIME Magazine: On an evening in December 2023, 43-year-old small business owner Sarah Rosenkranz collapsed in her home in Granbury, Texas and was rushed to the emergency room. Her heart pounded 200 beats per minute; her blood pressure spiked into hypertensive crisis; her skull throbbed. "It felt like my head was in a pressure vise being crushed," she says. "That pain was worse than childbirth." Rosenkranz's migraine lasted for five days. Doctors gave her several rounds of IV medication and painkiller shots, but nothing seemed to knock down the pain, she says. This was odd, especially because local doctors were similarly vexed when Indigo, Rosenkranz's 5-year-old daughter, was taken to urgent care earlier that year, screaming that she felt a "red beam behind her eardrums." It didn't occur to Sarah that these symptoms could be linked. But in January 2024, she walked into a town hall in Granbury and found a room full of people worn thin from strange, debilitating illnesses. A mother said her 8-year-old daughter was losing her hearing and fluids were leaking from her ears. Several women said they experienced fainting spells, including while driving on the highway. Others said they were wracked by debilitating vertigo and nausea, waking up in the middle of the night mid-vomit. None of them knew what, exactly, was causing these symptoms. But they all shared a singular grievance: a dull aural hum had crept into their lives, which growled or roared depending on the time of day, rattling their windows and rendering them unable to sleep. The hum, local law enforcement had learned, was emanating from a Bitcoin mining facility that had recently moved into the area -- and was exceeding legal noise ordinances on a daily basis.
Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or the emergency room with these symptoms. The development of large-scale Bitcoin mines and data centers is quite new, and most of them are housed in extremely remote places. There have been no major medical studies on the impacts of living near one. But there is an increasing body of scientific studies linking prolonged exposure to noise pollution with cardiovascular damage. And one local doctor -- ears, nose, and throat specialist Salim Bhaloo -- says he sees patients with symptoms potentially stemming from the Bitcoin mine's noise on an almost weekly basis. "I'm sure it increases their cortisol and sugar levels, so you're getting headaches, vertigo, and it snowballs from there," Bhaloo says. "This thing is definitely causing a tremendous amount of stress. Everyone is just miserable about it." "By the end of 2024, we intend to have replaced the majority of air-cooled containers with immersion cooling, with no expansion required," said a representative for Marathon Digital Holdings, the company that owns the mine. "Initial sound readings on immersion containers indicate favorable results in sound reduction and compliance with all relevant state noise ordinances." They did not answer questions about the health impacts their mining site was causing.
"We're living in a nightmare," said Rosenkranz. She clocked the hum at 72 decibels in Indigo's bedroom in the dead of night. "Indigo's room directly faces the mine, which sits about a mile and a half away," notes TIME. She had to be pulled from her school after she developed so many ear infections from the sound.
The report also said a resident's dog "started going bald and developed debilitating anxiety shortly after the Bitcoin mine began operating four blocks away." TIME added: "Directly next door, Tom Weeks' dog Jack Rabbit Slim started shaking and hyperventilating uncontrollably for hours on end; a vet placed him on the seizure medication Gabapentin. Rosenkranz's chickens stopped laying eggs for months. And Jerry and Patricia Campbell's centuries-old oak tree, which had served as the family's hub and protector for generations of backyard family reunions and even a wedding, died suddenly three months ago."
Over the course of several months in 2024, TIME spoke to more than 40 people in the Granbury area who reported a medical ailment that they believe is connected to the arrival of the Bitcoin mine: hypertension, heart palpitations, chest pain, vertigo, tinnitus, migraines, panic attacks. At least 10 people went to urgent care or the emergency room with these symptoms. The development of large-scale Bitcoin mines and data centers is quite new, and most of them are housed in extremely remote places. There have been no major medical studies on the impacts of living near one. But there is an increasing body of scientific studies linking prolonged exposure to noise pollution with cardiovascular damage. And one local doctor -- ears, nose, and throat specialist Salim Bhaloo -- says he sees patients with symptoms potentially stemming from the Bitcoin mine's noise on an almost weekly basis. "I'm sure it increases their cortisol and sugar levels, so you're getting headaches, vertigo, and it snowballs from there," Bhaloo says. "This thing is definitely causing a tremendous amount of stress. Everyone is just miserable about it." "By the end of 2024, we intend to have replaced the majority of air-cooled containers with immersion cooling, with no expansion required," said a representative for Marathon Digital Holdings, the company that owns the mine. "Initial sound readings on immersion containers indicate favorable results in sound reduction and compliance with all relevant state noise ordinances." They did not answer questions about the health impacts their mining site was causing.
"We're living in a nightmare," said Rosenkranz. She clocked the hum at 72 decibels in Indigo's bedroom in the dead of night. "Indigo's room directly faces the mine, which sits about a mile and a half away," notes TIME. She had to be pulled from her school after she developed so many ear infections from the sound.
The report also said a resident's dog "started going bald and developed debilitating anxiety shortly after the Bitcoin mine began operating four blocks away." TIME added: "Directly next door, Tom Weeks' dog Jack Rabbit Slim started shaking and hyperventilating uncontrollably for hours on end; a vet placed him on the seizure medication Gabapentin. Rosenkranz's chickens stopped laying eggs for months. And Jerry and Patricia Campbell's centuries-old oak tree, which had served as the family's hub and protector for generations of backyard family reunions and even a wedding, died suddenly three months ago."
dangerous territory (Score:5, Funny)
Imagine if there was a bitcoin mine in every town...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Not _in_ Granbury (Score:4, Informative)
For the record, the article was seen by locals here in Granbury that posted that this facility is about 5 miles out of town, which is why I haven't heard it in my travels around town. There has been much chatter on local web pages about the noise, with people measuring 90 Db of noise. That's a lot of noise. I wouldn't be surprised that there were health consequences from something like that. But it's a Hood County problem, not a Granbury problem.
An arial photo of the site shows what appears to be an attempt at a sound wall around it. Apparently that's not working too well.
Something needs to be done, but what is the big question. Apparently there's not a great solution short of simply shutting down the site, which would be unfair to the business. Maybe a $$$ / day fine for violating noise standards that's high enough to make building an effective sound barrier around the place cheaper than paying the fine would be a viable approach.
Re:Not _in_ Granbury (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:Not _in_ Granbury (Score:5, Insightful)
What's unfair about not being allowed to drive people from their homes (or in to their graves) with your excessive noise?
Re:Not _in_ Granbury (Score:5, Informative)
There will be very few actual workers local at the mining building. Most of the workers built it then moved on, with a small crew to keep it running in not-quite-up-to-code safety conditions. This is a bitcoin mining business, it's one step below a spam call center.
Re:Not _in_ Granbury (Score:5, Informative)
What's unfair about it is allowing the situation to grow to gigantic proportions, and then changing gov't's mind and saying you have to stop, after millions of $$$ investment and however many employees that would have quit former jobs to sign on with the facility, or even moved maybe 100's of miles, and then the job goes away. The unfair part is gov't not making up its mind at the start. Any law broken should have been enforced immediately, rather than accumulating many folks who would then be hurt by a shutdown.
Strongly disagree.
If a thing is found to be harmful after a business is permitted to do that thing, adjusting laws or enforcement of laws is absolutely fair. You don't get to say "well, there were no laws against child-labour when we opened the sneaker factory" and you don't get to say "well, nobody used to complain when we pumped thousands of gallons of toxic sludge there" and you don't get to say "well, we used to be allowed to put lead in our paint".
I'll agree that people buying houses near existing airports and then complaining about the noise... that's not fair. When the neighborhood changes, encroaching the business and complains, that's not fair. But when the community was unaware of the actual harm your business is causing prior to letting you do your thing... it's shutdown time if you don't stop causing actual harm.
Re:Not _in_ Granbury (Score:5, Insightful)
Shutting it down IS fair, because they are breaking the local ordinances. They provide no actual benefit to the local economy. There is no need for society to have bitcoin miners in the first place, nobody should be treating them like your average businesses that provide a service. Chances are they just leave if there's a fine, and the site is left as a trash pit for local tax dollars to clean up (good luck tracking down the asshole owners in order to sue them). Do not confuse a bitcoin mining facility with something as fancy or useful as a "data center".
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Apparently there's not a great solution short of simply shutting down the site, which would be unfair to the business.
Not at all unfair. They had the option of designing their plant to conform to the same regulations that everyone else has to and they chose not to. Why should they get to socialise the cost of their incompetence onto others? Why do you see a value in allowing incompetently run businesses to profit and put competently run ones at a competitive disadvantage? Shouldn't we let the free market allow good businesses to prosper rather than distorting it by allowing unequal compliance to standards?
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Perhaps if you didn't get a 14 hour break from the noise every day, you might have had more effects. Kinda like I can do without oxygen for 60 seconds with no ill effects.
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You say you've not suffered any ill effects, but what about the irreparable damage to your dignity and reputation?
72dB (A?) at a mile and a half?! (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't know what scaling they are referring to with the 72dB, but if that is weighted broad spectrum the operators need to go to jail. Even if it is a single octave or single frequency that is insane at distance.
I got in trouble for work once due to loud temporary equipment at a data center-- it was a 48-hour work window starting midnight Friday running through to Sunday... and we were well under 60dBA at the property line.
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It's clearly wrong or there's another noise source in the room. They'd need something like a jet engine going full blast and aimed at the town to generate that sound level.
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Something like, say hundreds of exhaust fans with no noise suppression open to the outside? Like people do when they build a "datacenter" out of densely packed cargo containers?
Re:72dB (A?) at a mile and a half?! (Score:4, Insightful)
Like many others, you are for some reason assuming omni-directional radiation of the energy. Low frequency sound can be lensed and wave guided by geological features.
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Low frequency noise behaves a bit differently, especially when you get into ground conduction. I am sure the higher frequency stuff attenuates to reasonable levels.
Industry (Score:3)
i live near a gigantic paper goods production facility
the whole move towards banning plastic containers has increased their output 10 fold, they used to just churn out some paper, now plastic straws are illegal so they make millions of straws etc
they must run several heavy duty vehicles similar to a front end loader
their job is to constantly rotate their massive pile of exposed wood chips and they do so 24 hours a day, 7 days a week since the size of the pile has also increased exponentially
one day they received a mandate to put very high decibel beepers on their equipment that operate when in reverse
BEEP BEEP BEEP BEEP
oh your house has a humming noise? cry me a river
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oh your house has a humming noise? cry me a river
Corporations are running lives and your response is "screw you they're ruining mine too". My 2p is that you're angry at the wrong people here.
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Depending on where you live in the world, you just need to get your local environmental health officer to monitor the sound level and the company will either need to have to find a quieter way to comply with regulations, move, or sound insulate your house for you.
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they are just conservative and try to look before they leap.
Nope. NopeNopeNopeNope. They're terrified of change, aggressively anti-reality/science/progress and enjoy huge dollops of self delusion.
Nice try at reframing their stance but no.
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Conservatives are not dumb , they are just conservative and try to look before they leap.
Conservatives are trying to do the same dumb shit that doesn't work that they have always done. Austerity for the poor and immunity for the rich never worked and never will work. These miners are breaking the law already so why is the government not shutting them down? Answer, because business is important and people aren't, and if conservatives were such geniuses they wouldn't have elected officials that treat them that way.
I don't know if this is a stupid question... (Score:5, Insightful)
...but what exactly is the difference between a "Bitcoin Mine" and a regular datacenter?
Both are a bunch of servers, that on their own don't make any noise at all. The noise making devices are cooling and other HVAC stuff. But that's required in non-bitcoin datacenters, too.
Do we know about such problems there, too?
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Money and taxation I should imagine.
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I'd guess that the typical bitcoin mine has SIGNIFICANTLY higher cooling requirements per machine than the typical datacenter. Completely different computational profile.
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...but what exactly is the difference between a "Bitcoin Mine" and a regular datacenter?
Both are a bunch of servers, that on their own don't make any noise at all. The noise making devices are cooling and other HVAC stuff. But that's required in non-bitcoin datacenters, too.
Do we know about such problems there, too?
But ... but ... Bitcoin makes the cows dry up and the chickens stop laying! It's a witch!
Re:I don't know if this is a stupid question... (Score:5, Informative)
Data centers are engineered to keep noise levels down.
Bitcoin Mines are shady operations set up by dudes who don't have proper engineering skills and therefore just slap shit together.
Case of mass hysteria? (Score:2)
This isn't the dogs b**ks (Score:2)
I stopped any attempt at believing when I got to the bit about dogs going bald. That's Mange, not mining.
Infrasound (Score:4, Informative)
While a constant loud noise is bound to be miserable, infrasound [wikipedia.org] is the most likely explanation for the health problems the town residents are reporting. Certain very low frequencies not detectable by human hearing have been known to cause various health problems. From the description of the sound:
a dull aural hum had crept into their lives, which growled or roared depending on the time of day
it definitely sounds like low-frequency noise, so some of it probably crosses the infrasound threshold. Animals having problems also makes sense, animal hearing is more sensitive than human. The tree dying though is most likely unrelated.
I'm a little surprised their luck has held... (Score:3)
Maybe I'm trading in hurtful regional stereotypes; but if I were doing something that had an entire town in Texas convinced I was sickening them for profit I'd be counting my blessings to not have parties unknown who everyone will swear they known nothing about taking a few shots into the hardware on carefully chosen nights.
It wouldn't even need to be the slightly more excitable sort of people who are willing to do interpersonal violence(though those are certainly a thing): a very low margin datacenter operation is going to have as close to zero staff, especially off-hours, as they can get away with; and a security guard density calibrated more toward keeping opportunistic junkies from having all night to crowbar out stuff for the scrapyard; not some heavily manned perimeter or scary rapid-response team. It's just be a property crime you could do from several hundred meters away(can you hit the broad side of a shipping container? You're qualified!), minimal risk to anyone, and feel like you've done a little community service afterwards.
Re:How can they be sure it is not the wifi? (Score:4, Insightful)
Uh, the noise they see register on the decibel meter?
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Most likely the oak is a coincidence understandably enough miss-attributed, though there is an outside chance the noise drove a colony of invading insects to hyper-activity.
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Yes, obvious causation (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Yes, obvious causation (Score:5, Informative)
So the anti wind turbine people are right then..
Fair enough, I thought they were nutty too.
Possibly, the one publication I found couldn't find a statistically detectable effect [nih.gov], which is plausible since the turbines were only generating noise levels of 35 dB (as opposed to 72 dB here).
But I think it's something worthwhile studying and I'd be cautious about putting them too close to residences.
Re:Yes, obvious causation (Score:5, Informative)
I don't know why pro-renewable people dismiss this blisteringly obvious drawback to wind turbines.
We don't. Turbines make noise, and you can't build houses directly under them. Very occasionally they burn or collapse so they are kept separate from buildings. Nothing is perfect. Wind turbines obviously take space and materials and have a non-zero carbon impact e.g. through the need to have people working on them to maintain them. However, that carbon impact and general environmental impact is lower than almost any other energy source with only mountain hydro in specifically good locations, solar and nuclear (if you ignore the real impact of cleanups and all sorts of other indirect problems which make nuclear really problematic) come close.
The thing is, though, that we know that there is an active campaign of misinformation spreading by the fossil fuel industry and complaints against wind are almost always massively overblown and deceptive. For example here, we have a 35dB noise (the wind turbine) being compared to a 72dB noise from bitcoin mining. The measured Bitcoin noise is almost 10,000 times / almost four orders of magnitude stronger. Something that's four orders of magnitude just has no relation and yet that discussion is being entertained.
Just like living in a house next to a busy highway sucks: even if there are zero measurable negative health effects, the annoyance of constant loud traffic and having to shout outside with your family just to be heard is bad enough.
There are a bunch of studies that show that living next to highways is damaging to your health. Again, the fact that Wind is brought up here seems extremely suspicious.
A busy highway is much louder than wind turbine.
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So the anti wind turbine people are right then..
Not all noise is equal. Someone whispering in your ear will have quite a different effect than someone firing a gun next to it. Please engage your brain. Wind turbines are whisper quiet in comparison to the numbers in TFA.
Re:Yes, obvious causation (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:How can they be sure it is not the wifi? (Score:4, Interesting)
It's not just about volume, it's also about frequencies. 72db is still a lot to handle all day long every day either way, but certain frequencies are specifically damaging to certain materials. In fact, there's a frequency that's specifically damaging to every material, including your organ tissue. Mass hysteria doesn't kill oak trees.
Re: How can they be sure it is not the wifi? (Score:2)
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I have a degree in hort sci, and while I despise both crypto and noise pollution, even I am struggling to believe that it was related to the tree's death.
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People who whine about horrible "wind turbine noise" have clearly never been near a modern wind farm.
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I mean, not to put too fine a point on it, but this 73 decibel noise, 1 1/2 miles away from the bitcoin mine? Wind farms target under 45dB for the nearest structures (just a couple hundred meters away). Remember that dB is a logarithmic scale - 73db is a vaccum cleaner, while 40-45dB is a library. And that downplays the difference - server farm fans are annoying high-pitched whines, while wind turbines sound like the wind itself.
I really recommend people who haven't visited a wind turbine actually do so,
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How isn't that being upvoted (Score:2)
Except perhaps it's stating the obvious... ;)
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I'm pretty sure that someone who does yard or office work 24/7 for a couple months will suffer some pretty severe health effects.
Re:How can they be sure it is not the wifi? (Score:5, Funny)
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Or the 5G? Or the TV...
When did everything from chickens to dogs to humans, start experiencing physical symptoms within a certain radius of [new_loud_annoying_shit]? Timing is quite relevant here.
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When did everything from chickens to dogs to humans, start experiencing physical symptoms within a certain radius
Farmers may have discovered a new superweapon.
Maybe Cuba did it! But probably not.
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Doesn't matter - company exceeded the legal limits for sound, so they must change whether or not a link to the illnesses is proven.
Your optimism is showing (Score:2)
I hope you're right, but I have my doubts that they will be stopped.
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Re:Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:5, Informative)
72 decibels, inside your bedroom, from a mile and a half away, is not 'background noise'.
Sounds like you didn't read the article.
Re:Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:4, Insightful)
On the other hand, low frequency combined with unfortunate rock strata can add up to a natural wave guide.
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In theory and as first approach: yes.
But Reality(tm) has some tricks up its sleeve: unfortunate resonances, different loudness perception for different frequencies...
Friends of mine had the police called by neighbors 200m away for their loud "music" at a garden party. Turned out the generator noise was reflected and amplified at that place, but it was solved by moving the generator a few meters and everyone was happy.
Acoustics can be a tricky b*ch
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72 db in the bedroom implies 150 db at the source. Inverse square law and all. 150 db is about the volume of a fighter jet taking off and 20 db above the threshold of pain. Something doesn't sound right.
Yeah, agreed; anything's possible, but my BS detector is beeping ...
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I did, and frankly I disbelieve that number.
Datacenters generally have walls ... and a mile and a half? That'll attenuate the sound a whole lot even if it's an open field which I also doubt is the case. Unless they're using jumbo-jet sized turbines, outdoors, without baffels, and aimed at the town this claim is dubious at best. Any type of noise ordinance would have immediately flagged that and shut them down ages ago.
So yah, shenanigans.
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Unless, like many places, the authorities ignore noise ordinance issues.
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Re:Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:4, Informative)
Infrasound can behave in strange ways. Hearing it from a mile and a half away is not even unusual. I remember trying to track a sound I was hearing through the living room wall. I walked 5 blocks in what I thought was the general direction, and the sound waxed and waned as I walked. I finally gave up. I found out the next day that there was a rock concert the previous night. About 2 miles away. Across the river.
The problem is compounded by the common use of dBA in noise ordinances. dBA discards sound lower than 20 Hertz.
Also, you can't block it out, except maybe with an acoustic metamaterial. Loud infrasound and near-infrasound is torture.
Re: Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:2)
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Any type of noise ordinance would have immediately flagged that and shut them down ages ago.
You didn't even read the summary, much less the article.
"The hum, local law enforcement had learned, was emanating from a Bitcoin mining facility that had recently moved into the area -- and was exceeding legal noise ordinances on a daily basis."
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"news for nerds, and also people who don't like reading numbers"
Re:Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:5, Informative)
It's a well known phenomenon with low frequency noise. Even wildlife experience distress. Windmills, building HVAC systems, etc cause these issues. Europe had tons of studies on it.
My father was an industrial hygienist and they often did commercial contracts where they had to find out why a building or office was making people sick for no explicable reason. Quite often it was tracked down to a ventilation fan that had gone bad (bad bearings, or unbalanced). Symptoms resolved after fixing the hardware.
Personally I went mental from heavy machinery doing construction for months on end about a mile from my house. At first I had no idea what was happening to me. I didn't consciously notice the noise or vibration. It took me about a year to finally figure it out.
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What is the indoor decibel figures for NYC?
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And what's the rate of cardiovascular and/or mental diseases there?
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Because pervasive, 24/7 background noise has been the norm here for decades and there's plenty of other things killing people here that aren't mystery 'noise' illnesses...
Various militaries have done development on sound-based weapons. Pervasive ignorance assumes the presence of random sounds means all of them are harmless. The symptoms seem quite unique and yet common across quite a few living there? If the issues are proven by the hospital records to align with new machine operations in the area generating considerable noise, then it’s certainly worth looking into.
No matter where people are being harmed mysteriously and inexplicably, it should be investigated. Wh
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There are many thousands datacenters around the world, some very very large and close to residential areas. But somehow this is unique because ... bitcoin? It makes no sense.
Inside the datacenter? yes, I can see that being loud to the point of danger. Outside of it? Doubtful. 1.5 miles away ... inside of a house? That's just not believable,
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I have noticed that data centers are MUCH louder when on generator. Also, the datacenter consists of many densely packed cargo containers each with an independent cooling system bolted on externally. That probably isn't quiet.
Re: Then all of Manhattan is walking dead? (Score:2)
A bitcoin mining setup is not like a real datacenter.
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There are many thousands datacenters around the world, some very very large and close to residential areas. But somehow this is unique because ... bitcoin? It makes no sense.
Inside the datacenter? yes, I can see that being loud to the point of danger. Outside of it? Doubtful. 1.5 miles away ... inside of a house? That's just not believable,
Whats not believable, the fact that mining data centers are having to fight hard against local noise ordinances normally meant to limit things like airports?
As others have pointed out, they are quite unique builds. With.very unique construction challenges. Wouldn’t be surprised to see nuclear plant level red tape getting in front of mining data center builds soon. Which will be ironic, since the best place to build one will be next to the damn nuclear plant powering the fucking thing.
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Well datacenters have standards too. We don't know what kind of weird setup these guys got going on.
Theyre talking about upgrading containerized units to immersion which is pretty werid just on the little statement they made.
Low Frequency Sound (Score:5, Informative)
Because pervasive, 24/7 background noise has been the norm here for decades
The story refers to constant, low frequency sound which is not the same as city noise. This is known to be bad from an occupational health and safety perspective [researchgate.net] when you are only exposed to it at work. It produces similar but much less extreme symptoms: tiredness, headaches, feeling of pressure on the eardrums etc. Being exposed to it all the time you are home for months on end I suspect is why their symptoms are much, much worse.
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Not really. The reason the data center is so loud is because it's cheap. Not a proper A/C system, lack of ducting, individual containers have bolted on A/C. The whole point of bitcoin mining is to cut costs to the bone because the margin is very low. The number of necessary workers is also very small - it's too hot to really work on them most of the time, certainly too loud, so you just need a skeleton staff that deals with outages, many workers are off-site where their job is to deflect nosy questions.
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Re:Being TX, probably called the victims "whiners. (Score:4, Interesting)
Hood County (where Granbury resides) is a deeply Republican area. Trump won in 2020 with 81.3% of the vote. So quite likely, most of the people who live in the area are deeply opposed to government regulation.
So now they get to experience a hard lesson why that may not be in the best interest.
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Individually, they will complain and realize the error of no government regulation, but get them in a group and they'll all swear allegiance to NO government.
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A few times in my life I've quizzed some anti regulation nutballs and the one thing they had in common was I could find laws and regulations that were "important", but only a few, the rest were stupid and there was little overlap from person to person.
Special mention: Guy smoked pot in his youth but thought anti pot laws were important, didn't believe me that legalization was part of the libertarian platform. OSHA on the other hand was just a way for unelected inspectors to throw their weight around on go
Re:Being TX, probably called the victims "whiners. (Score:4, Insightful)
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Probably they won't gain anything from it: Learning is a liberal concept. No matter how awful Texas becomes, they just make up conspiracy theories to blame someone else. They spin a little wheel of scapegoats in their head to decide which powerless minority they want to terrorize next to distract themselves from the self-inflicted disaster du jour.
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Yeah I’m sure all the animals are faking it too.
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Let us know when the animals complain that their problems are due to the noise.
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Of course, the cause and effect of noise on health is scientifically documented. If a child eats a few carrot sticks, a small cup of apple sauce, and half a pound of rock candy, what's your first guess about the cause of the tummy ache?
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The dogs and livestock are all hysteria victims?
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The dogs and livestock are all hysteria victims?
That would explain the 'research' source for this article.
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Of course, chickens are well known for believing everything they read!
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Agreed. (Score:2)
Science (Score:2)
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What is bullshit? That you don't understand the many scientific studies showing long term noise exposure has impacts on people's health including cardiovascular? Or that you don't understand that 75dB in the middle of the night is not only really fucking loud, it would also be enough to call the police on your neighbours in many sane jurisdictions. 75dB is a noise 100x louder than an operating library.