• Mii@awful.systems
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    As someone with regular migraines who’s also very sensitive to noise, this is crazy, and sound pollution is something most people don’t even take seriously.

    the Granbury Bitcoin mine is emitting 70 or even 90 decibels on a nightly basis

    90 decibels? Fucking end me.

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        90 decibels is about as loud as a truck driving past or a (legal, not stupid noisy) motorcycle from 4-5 metres away at 70% rpm.

        If they’re more than 500 metres away this would be a slight annoyance at worst.

        Yeah, but a motorcycle won’t drive past you non-stop and 24/7.

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            People have lived with noise pollution before.

            “thanks” for your contribution

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            “People have lived with water pollution before”, he says, dumping a truckload of depleted uranium into the swimming pool.

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            Prolonged exposure to noise pollution is an unproven health risk? Yeah right.

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        It’s not a conventional data center. It’s a bunch of containers containing mining hardware with giant fans blowing through them. This is obvious from the header image of the article.