They should never use water to COOL THE AIR. Cooling the air is a waste of time. Cooling each and every unit with its own electrical cooling unit eliminates the need for generalized cooling of the entire building. If each unit within the building had its own cooling unit the air would never get hot.
The centers are built in a capitalism ideology using the cheapest methods to maximize profits. We know it is unsafe to live under high tension wires as it causes cancer from the electrical field alone. These monstrous buildings are no different. The cancer reality hasn’t erupted yet. It takes at least a decade and more like two decades for cancers and birth defects to show up. The birth defects will result sooner IF statistics of newborns are kept and processed well by disease analysts.
There is enormous noise pollution that will cause disease and mental strain. The buildings literally HUM no different than an electrical transfer station.
Ya know how all the techi CEOs lined up for a group picture with Trump on Inauguration Day? Guess who wrote executive orders to green light these nightmares of projects.
The noise levels are not mechanical. The noise levels are electrical. Mechanical noise can be contained through engineering methods. Electrical noise travels outside any possible method to contain it.
These data centers are built on ground artificially higher than surrounding buildings and communities. It is designed (not engineered) that way to keep rain from flooding into the building. Stop to realize what a floor, even a minor flood, would look like with that complex of electrical grid.
The lousy things should be built significantly underground. Such an arrangement would assist with temperature control, but, would contain the noise causing electrical problems. I don’t really see it will work any other way. The FACTORY is too dangerous to human life to have constructed it above ground.
Beginning to see the expense if it were done right rather than for the purpose of profit?
Governors that green lighted these massively intrusive buildings were never provided adequate details of SIDE EFFECTS. And don’t tell me they didn’t know. I believe it is Facebook that has an enormous building in a mountainous region and I want to say it is in Europe somewhere. At least that is what I recall without looking through my records. They know the problems with these things; they just don’t care because the federal government never demanded them to care.
Public utilities are more heavily regulated than these things. I really think Governors expected the Techies to be more responsible than they are in this instance.
See, IT are people pleasing industries, right? They are dependent on happy consumers. Data centers are a completely different aspect to the industry. Data centers are factories. Few employees are involved. The larger capacity is supposed to make people happy at having endless computer capacity. Wrong!
Data Centers are an imposition on humanity. I guess if one doesn’t value human life over profits that might explain the numerous engineering problems people are facing now. In Oklahoma there are places where people have moved away because of fracking. The same applies here. Just because the data centers are poorly researched does not mean they are safe.
Each data center should be required to have its own sustainable power source on site. They should never be hooked to the grid. The factory needs to stand alone in its energy needs. Wind and solar projects should be encouraged. Below ground is the data center and at the surface its solar powered or wind powered power source.
There is a lot of work to be done at MIT before the first one was allowed to power up.
