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What Are the Real Side Effects of Living Near Data Centers_(M4A_128K) · Drawn of History

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  Speaker 1: Let's get to some clarity on the water issue and
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  Speaker 1: on nature. What truth do we know? And what information
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  Speaker 1: is out there about how data centers actually use water
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  Speaker 1: and what effects that they have on nature? Like, do
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  Speaker 1: we have, what information do we really have?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it's the amount of water that it takes to
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  Speaker 2: cool the data center. So if it's a smaller data center,
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  Speaker 2: it could be 5 million gallons of water a day.
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  Speaker 1: A little baby center, bro.
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  Speaker 2: Right. But if it's a big data center, you could
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  Speaker 2: be talking 30 million gallons of water.
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  Speaker 3: Millions and millions of gallons of water.
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  Speaker 1: 30 million gallons a day?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that they have to use a day. A day?
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  Speaker 3: To cool, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Let's see this. A typical medium-sized data center consumes about
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  Speaker 1: 100 million gallons of water annually. That's medium-sized. Roughly 300,000
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  Speaker 1: to 500,000 gallons per day. However, large hyperscale campuses can
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  Speaker 1: guzzle up to 5 million gallons per day. So that's off.
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  Speaker 2: And there's some 30 million gallons in there.
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  Speaker 3: You can find those around. You can even just Google that.
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  Speaker 2: I believe it was in Georgia, 30 million gallons of
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  Speaker 2: water was missing from one of them.
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  Speaker 1: Well, people probably are going to come and get you
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  Speaker 1: a little bit of that Georgia water. Get you a
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  Speaker 1: swig of it. It's probably 30 proof. A massive quality
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  Speaker 1: technology services QTS data center in Fayetteville, Georgia drained nearly
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  Speaker 1: 30 million gallons of water without paying or alerting the county.
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  Speaker 1: But I don't know if it was a day, but
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  Speaker 1: still it's a lot. That's a lot.
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  Speaker 3: That's a lot. Yeah. And no, there are, there are
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  Speaker 3: some out there and we can, we can look them up.
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  Speaker 3: But if you have all these.
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  Speaker 1: What's the process of the use of water? Cause I mean,
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  Speaker 1: they use it, but can you then like, Can you
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  Speaker 1: purify the water or like is there is like a
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  Speaker 1: process that you can then use it again?
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  Speaker 2: Well, so they just had if you want to pull
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  Speaker 2: up Cheyenne, Wyoming. So there's open cooling and there's closed
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  Speaker 2: cooling and they want to go to more closed cooling
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  Speaker 2: systems where.
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  Speaker 3: The water has to pass.
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  Speaker 2: Again, that reminds me a little bit of the Hinkley
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  Speaker 2: situation because you've got a closed loop system. You're going
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  Speaker 2: to need chemicals in there to prevent rust and corrosion.
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  Speaker 2: And I believe it just happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming, where
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  Speaker 2: they were draining that system and there was some construction error,
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  Speaker 2: but it contaminated the entire sewer system. So it's Cheyenne, Wyoming.
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  Speaker 1: Cheyenne's Board of Public Utilities has temporarily stopped accepting wastewater
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  Speaker 1: from data centers, fill and flush operations, and closed-loop cooling
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  Speaker 1: systems after a meta-linked construction discharge contaminated the city's reclaimed
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  Speaker 1: irrigation water with a rare bacterium. That's the same company
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  Speaker 1: that's doing it in Louisiana.
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  Speaker 3: Right?
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  Speaker 2: And we're seeing a lot of, because the water is warmer,
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  Speaker 2: they have to be heated. You're seeing different chemicals that
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  Speaker 2: they're using in the closed system. It could be hexavalent chromium.
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  Speaker 2: It could be PFAS. That water could be full of
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  Speaker 2: other diseases. Well, now, yeah, the water's bad.
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  Speaker 1: You know anything. You know, the kids out there, you
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  Speaker 1: never even know. He's sipping bad water. They got chromium
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  Speaker 1: in the water.
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  Speaker 2: And you can have accidents like this that you're reading
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  Speaker 2: about that just happened in Cheyenne, Wyoming?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is unbelievable. Meta's Cheyenne facility is designed
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  Speaker 1: to use a closed-loop liquid cooling system, meaning the same
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  Speaker 1: coolant water is recirculated within the data center rather than
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  Speaker 1: continuously discharged. During construction, however, contractors perform fill-and-flush procedures to
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  Speaker 1: clean and pressure test the cooling pipes. And that one time,
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  Speaker 1: wastewater was sent to the city's reclamation system where the
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  Speaker 1: bacterium was detected. And what's the bacterium?
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  Speaker 3: Let me see.
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  Speaker 1: It's at the top. What's it called?
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  Speaker 3: Is it Legionnaire?
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  Speaker 1: No, it was Cupriavitus Gallardi. So he's, I mean, he's
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  Speaker 1: a four-star recruit, I'm guessing, you know? I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: say that out there. I'm surprised. Bro, give him an hour.
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  Speaker 1: Lane Kiffin will be over there recruiting him. You know that, dude.
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  Speaker 2: These waterborne bacterias are very dangerous. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 2: we're watching the whole explosive diarrhea map that's happening right now,
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  Speaker 2: and they believe it's a waterborne bacteria.
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  Speaker 3: Is there? No. It's definitely going. We can look that
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  Speaker 3: one up, too.
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  Speaker 1: Where's the bad diarrhea at now?
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  Speaker 2: It's across the country. Didn't you see the big diarrhea map?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't see it.
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  Speaker 3: You created the big diarrhea map?
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  Speaker 1: But just the fact that this is where we're at. Like,
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  Speaker 1: we've been lulled into idiocracy. The fact that this is
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  Speaker 1: where we're at. There's a big diarrhea map now.
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  Speaker 3: Look, there it is!
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, because of how dangerous the water's gotten that it's like, oh. Like,
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be on the news now. Like, from now,
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  Speaker 1: the news is changing. It's going to be like... Be careful.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're drinking water in this area, you're
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  Speaker 1: going to get big diarrhea or the baby's going to
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  Speaker 1: get a little bit of data in his bottle or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying? Like you can't even keep,
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  Speaker 1: you know, your kids running outside and a strong breeze
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  Speaker 1: hits them. That's coming off the top of the data center.
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  Speaker 1: Now he's got a bunch of analytics stuck in his
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  Speaker 1: neck or whatever. You know what I'm saying? You can't
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  Speaker 1: keep the dad out of the baby diaper, bro. It's
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  Speaker 1: just everything's going to get weird. While Michigan right here,
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  Speaker 1: it says is from the hill. While Michigan has seen
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  Speaker 1: the most cases as of late. At least four more
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  Speaker 1: states have recorded more than 100 cases of explosive diarrhea
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  Speaker 1: causing parasitic illness have been reported. Of course. You know,
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  Speaker 1: you got a 40% of bad shit over there outside
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  Speaker 1: of Charlevoix. The Center for Disease Control and Prevention said
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  Speaker 1: that between the start of May and mid-June, at least
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  Speaker 1: 145 cases of cyclosporiasis had been reported in the U.S.,
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  Speaker 1: Cases of the parasite-based sickness are common each year from
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  Speaker 1: May through August, but some states are seeing larger than
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  Speaker 1: average spikes in cases.
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  Speaker 2: Waterborne diseases and illnesses, we could start seeing a whole
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  Speaker 2: lot of in the future, especially as, you know, whether
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  Speaker 2: you believe in climate change or not. I've always believed
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be water issues. Too much, too little,
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  Speaker 2: none at all. We're seeing that happening now. Even with
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  Speaker 2: flooding and you flood municipalities, they can't get back online.
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  Speaker 2: You can have bacteria, parasites, everything get in there. The
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  Speaker 2: biggest transporter of everything on this planet is water.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we're almost— We are, right.
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  Speaker 1: We're 90% water, I think.
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  Speaker 3: So we're really messing with.
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  Speaker 1: Unless you're crying, it goes down a little.
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  Speaker 2: Our most precious resource. And that is the one thing
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  Speaker 2: that data centers utilize the most. Yeah. And again, you know,
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  Speaker 2: AI is here to stay. But the data centers, especially
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  Speaker 2: when there's other solutions to it, They do not have
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  Speaker 2: to be built on top of drought-restricted areas who already
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  Speaker 2: are really struggling with water resources. And there's other locations.
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  Speaker 2: We could be putting these in underground caverns. You know,
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  Speaker 2: some people say, why don't you have them in Antarctica?
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  Speaker 2: Because they need water and they need to be cool.
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  Speaker 2: There's many reports that China has built– Tubular things and
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  Speaker 2: put them at the bottom of the ocean, but they
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  Speaker 2: have oversight. You can't build them on top of hospitals.
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  Speaker 2: You can't build them on top of homes. The noise pollution,
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  Speaker 2: the size of these things, 24-7 is noise. Generators, backup generators,
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  Speaker 2: a humming, a buzzing. It never, ever stops. It is
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  Speaker 2: such a disruption to every one of us and.
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  Speaker 3: Our quality of life.
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  Speaker 1: How do you know that?
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  Speaker 2: People's reporting it and the videos they're reporting it and
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  Speaker 2: it's being studied it is real these are massive facilities
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  Speaker 2: that are just going to suck every one of our
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  Speaker 2: resources and we don't even have an infrastructure system to
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  Speaker 2: support them yeah and so we've got a lot of
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  Speaker 2: issues there.
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  Speaker 1: You go living in hell data center neighbors grapple with
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  Speaker 1: noise and air pollution uh Because these data centers operate 24-7,
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  Speaker 1: they generate persistent background noise and chronic exposure to environmental
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  Speaker 1: noise has been associated with sleep disturbance, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases,
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  Speaker 1: and even stress-related outcomes. Noise pollution can be especially harmful
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  Speaker 1: to children as it has been linked to poor cognition.
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  Speaker 1: decrease learning and lower reading comprehension. Well, yeah, that's the thing, man.
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  Speaker 1: Your son's in the yard or whatever and suddenly some
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  Speaker 1: data flies through, you know, he gets hit by some
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  Speaker 1: data or something and he's got an episode of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: Friends or Seinfeld stuck in his back or whatever and
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  Speaker 1: then he's in a wheelchair. It's just like, You just
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  Speaker 1: don't know what's in the data either. You know what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying? You could be going for a jog and
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  Speaker 1: you get hit by some damn data, some loose data.
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  Speaker 3: We're going to get hit by data noise.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm just saying you got like because data flies
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  Speaker 1: through the air like that's the thing. People it's like
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand sometimes what's going on. This cloud has
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  Speaker 1: sound the unrelenting and unseen cost of AI data centers.
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  Speaker 1: What are they saying right here? And this is New
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  Speaker 1: York Times, which is, you know, suspect. But so so
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  Speaker 1: many places are. Instead of audibly hearing these extremely low frequencies,
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  Speaker 1: people physically feel them as pressure fluctuations, much like the
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  Speaker 1: deep vibration of a bass drum shaking your core.
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  Speaker 3: At a concert. It's deep.
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  Speaker 1: Said Scott Hamilton. Dang, these things can give me a
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  Speaker 1: damn BJ or whatever, and you're just trying to chill
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  Speaker 1: out or whatever. You're getting that data beach. A member
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  Speaker 1: of the Acoustical Society of America and a consultant on
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  Speaker 1: data center projects said that, um, This can leave the
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  Speaker 1: traditional gauges of noise and solutions for dampening it inadequate
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  Speaker 1: to meet modern needs. Some residents living near infrasound frequently
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  Speaker 1: report chronic sleep deprivation and insomnia, headaches, and internal ear
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  Speaker 1: pressure and anxiety.