Some local legislators and residents in Northern Virginia, home to ~275 data centers with dozens more planned, complain of land use, cooling fan noise, and more
I have, my house is *in* that picture. — It's ridiculously bad. 24/7 constant droning even inside. — There's another one by Manassas Airport that doesn't have this issue. … Tweets: Paul Kedrosky / @pkedrosky : Northern Virginia is home to about 275 data centers, handling at least a third of the world's online use, with dozens more planned—and many locals are unhappy about it, especially the fan noise https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... https://twitter.com/... Rona Kobell / @rkobell : Great story from @aolivo.Also an #environmentaljustice issue, and a land-use issue as these huge data centers create stormwater runoff and are built on farmland that could be open space for rec and flood-control. They also use huge energy users https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Fredrick Kunkle WaPo / @kunklefredrick : How development has turned parts of NoVa into a hellhole: Silicon Valley Chapter 2 ... deep dive by @aolivo into impact of cloud computing and data centers on people's lives https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ... Teo Armus / @teoarmus : The growth in NoVA's data center industry is sparking local land use debates in neighborhoods where data center buildings — some the size of several football fields — sit less than 100 feet from the nearest home.c By @aolivo https://www.washingtonpost.com/ ...