Analysis: Debunking Claims About Data Center Infrasound as Pseudoscience
By
logicprog
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Summary
The article critiques a popular YouTube video by Benn Jordan that claims data centers produce harmful infrasound, comparing this claim to similar pseudoscientific arguments previously used against wind turbines. The author systematically debunks the video's claims, arguing that the infrasound concerns are unfounded and represent a modern version of anti-technology fearmongering similar to past campaigns against renewable energy infrastructure.
Key quotes
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This video is a complete moment-to-moment disaster, and has received no meaningful pushback, so I will be the first.
Environmentalists may remember this as a pseudoscientific idea promoted by some fossil fuel interests to scare people about wind turbines in the 2010s.
There is a fast-spreading new idea that data centers cause a unique harm: 'infrasound.'
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