there is NO excess grid capacity or excess production capacity for alternative power generation that does not need permiting and enviromental studies.The one company that makes fuel cells that can power data centers is 100% booked, and debating if the long expensive process of doubling production will find a market in 3~5 years.
Solar and batteries needs multiple review and perming processes, but for "temporary" power needs the process is almost guaranteed, and with the fix in from DOJ ,they can give a shoot to kill order to protect the countrys vital assets.
Personaly I beleive that AI/big data will do nothing but blow hot air anyway,and it sucks for people who have these things close by, but all they can do is move, which might suck even more.
The only things that would provide significant noise reduction would be earth berms a lot higher than the turbines that could block and reflect the sound upwards, the berms would have to be continious with no breaks, and possibly "helmholtz resonators/tuned resinators" built from modified shipping cans embeded in the berms to reduce SPL at the worst frequencies.
Courts could order remediation efforts to sound proof affected resedents with tripple glazed windows, and other full acoustical sealing methods , and perhaps subsidised air conditioning for the heat, as it's not like they dont have 1.5 trillion dollars laying around.
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there is NO excess grid capacity or excess production capacity for alternative power generation that does not need permiting and enviromental studies.The one company that makes fuel cells that can power data centers is 100% booked, and debating if the long expensive process of doubling production will find a market in 3~5 years. Solar and batteries needs multiple review and perming processes, but for "temporary" power needs the process is almost guaranteed, and with the fix in from DOJ ,they can give a shoot to kill order to protect the countrys vital assets. Personaly I beleive that AI/big data will do nothing but blow hot air anyway,and it sucks for people who have these things close by, but all they can do is move, which might suck even more. The only things that would provide significant noise reduction would be earth berms a lot higher than the turbines that could block and reflect the sound upwards, the berms would have to be continious with no breaks, and possibly "helmholtz resonators/tuned resinators" built from modified shipping cans embeded in the berms to reduce SPL at the worst frequencies. Courts could order remediation efforts to sound proof affected resedents with tripple glazed windows, and other full acoustical sealing methods , and perhaps subsidised air conditioning for the heat, as it's not like they dont have 1.5 trillion dollars laying around.