Re: Northern Virginia has had enough with data centers

[Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>]

Northern Virginia has about 275 data centers

The noise complaints are about HVAC fan noise (24-hour droning) from 
cooling towers or roof top farms of evaporative condensers.

The water complaints are about the one-use water cooling towers

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.

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.

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/