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Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers
From: "Delong.com via NANOG" <nanog () nanog org>
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2023 16:01:35 -0700
On Jun 23, 2023, at 15:17, Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com> wrote: Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers
There’s probably close to that number in the South Bay Area of California as well.
The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers.
I get it, but reality is that at most datacenter, this noise simply disappears once you get much outside of the parking lot. Especially if there’s a busy roadway anywhere nearby.
The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers
That does seem rather silly… We don’t have those in California.
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 centers.
Yeah, I can kind of understand those, but as long as the grid is properly planned, it really shouldn’t have a destabilizing effect. In fact, many datacenter in California do CoGen and end up providing additional grid stability.
And if you didn't know, some VC-funded companies can be a**-holes and not known for being good neighbors or anything besides making money.
Oh, yeah… We have those here too.
And yes, I helped design & build several early data centers in NOVA :-) https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/02/10/data-centers-northern-virginia-internet/
No doubt. Owen
Current thread:
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers, (continued)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Mike Hammett (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Christopher Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers William Herrin (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Christopher Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Hal Murray (Jun 24)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers William Herrin (Jun 24)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Christopher Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Delong.com via NANOG (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Christopher Morrow (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Sean Donelan (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Joel Halpern (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Delong.com via NANOG (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Sean Donelan (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Michael Thomas (Jun 23)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Owen DeLong via NANOG (Jun 24)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Michael Thomas (Jun 26)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Ron Yokubaitis via NANOG (Jun 27)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Michael Thomas (Jun 26)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers John Levine (Jun 28)
- Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers Mike Hammett (Jun 23)