On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 3:57 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > > On Fri, Jun 23, 2023 at 12:19 PM Christopher Morrow > <morrowc.li...@gmail.com> wrote: > > The discussions in local news (in nova) seem to center around: > > "but the noise!" > > > > i'm sure it'll work out in the end, but ... gonna be fun to watch. > > There is apparently a problem in nearby West Virginia where someone > built a cryptomining facility using free air cooling and it disturbs > the neighbors. > https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2022/03/18/bitcoin-mining-noise-pollution-appalachia/
arguably, people buying into the idea that blatantly flim-flamming folks aren't going to flim-flamming them is.. not related here, at all. (that article is about limestone, TN, not west virginia - west nor virginia appear in the article) > Even traditional data centers have not been known to be especially > considerate about scheduling their -loud- genset tests. Doesn't matter > so much in the middle of an industrial zone but when you do it near > where people live you're going to make them angry. sure, I believe the various nova parts have reasonable agreements about how/when to do these sorts of tests though.
