Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

On Sat, Jun 24, 2023 at 3:02 PM Hal Murray wrote: > Why are gensets loud? They're high power internal combustion engines. Explosions are loud. > If I wanted a less noisy one, could I get it? Yes. If you run the engine at 3600 rpm to get 60 hertz ac power, it's a lot "louder" than if you run it

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

> 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. Why are gensets loud? Is ther

Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

> On Jun 23, 2023, at 18:04, Michael Thomas wrote: > >  >> On 6/23/23 4:01 PM, Delong.com via NANOG wrote: >> The electric grid complaints are about the demand on the grid making the >> entire region less stable and proposed construction of new high-voltage >> tower corridors for data cente