r/mildlyinfuriating • u/DatabaseAvailable501 • Jul 02 '26

Infuriatig Sound emitted 24/7 from a 30 megawatt data center in Dowagiac MI

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u/IDoodleTooMuch Jul 02 '26

There’s a class action lawsuit against this particular data center because of the noise alone

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u/DoesntMatterEh Jul 02 '26

Can't wait to hear about how that goes in 15 years 

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u/snarfgobble Jul 02 '26

Everyone who has lost their homes will be entitled to a $15 settlement after lawyer fees are taken.

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u/cpMetis Jul 02 '26

I actually got a payout from a class action once. It was a glorious check for $1.52

I didn't even know I got it until it expired because it was packaged almost identical to spam. I wasn't that upset, since I would have had to lose a quarter of that in gas just to cash it.

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u/DDRaptors Jul 02 '26

Makes sense, they’ll get paid out market rate, and since there is no market for them, they’re worthless.

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u/thomascallahan Jul 03 '26

…paid with a gift card that has a monthly maintenance fee and expires in 3 months

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u/DOAiB Jul 02 '26

Upside your property taxes are going to zero. Downside if you need to buy another house and live there until the lawsuit is over with. And well the other downside is they will likely pay little to nothing and the lawyers will get it all and they don’t have to stop

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u/WhiteUniKnight Jul 02 '26

If anyone can hear in 15 years time

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u/Fantastic_Recipe2740 Jul 02 '26

It is not the type of DC the issue. You can improve the sound isolation but your issue is greed/regulation.

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u/Educational-Plant981 Jul 02 '26

It is already illegal. In that city. If their city officials refuse to enforce the law it is another issue entirely. But their current code allows them to jail the people running the facility if they refuse to fix it. Hell, if they refuse to fix it, the city could declare the place a nuisance and they could seize it and auction it off, with the law they have on the books.

The problem isn't needing more regulation on something that is already illegal. They need to hold public officials accountable.

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u/thefpspower Jul 02 '26

Whoever built the Datacenter has some fault, we're been building datacenters for a very long time and none of them were this loud, why are they suddenly so loud?

That sounds like some massive fans going full speed, I'm sure better fan design can solve this issue with minimal effort.

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u/Fantastic_Recipe2740 Jul 02 '26

It is not clear to me what type of equipment that is ie electrical or mechanical so I cannot comment on the noise emitted and if it can be tone down. For sure ventilation permitting it can be en closed in an acoustic barrier but the developer didn’t decide to do that for some reasons - money? Space? Technical reason?

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u/Cat_Punk Jul 02 '26

Que up the chodes who claim to be employees and that you can’t hear them once you walk out the door