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Moving to Temple soon. Anything I should be aware of?
Texans are talking about how ridiculously loud these AI data centers are.
Story below (also in link and not under any paywall)
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By Macy Meinhardt
As Texas races to become the largest data center market in the world, another side effect of the boom is beginning to draw scrutiny: relentless noise pollution.
In Brazoria County, residents living near a Giga Energy computing site around the Sloping Acres neighborhood say a constant industrial hum has disrupted daily life for months. Several neighbors have compared the sound to an enormous "washing machine" that never turns off.
One nearby resident recently wrote on social media that her family had "spent years to be where we are today," only for "an AI data center to come in and ruin our peace."
"We can't even sit on the back porch without the constant noise," resident Kimberly Fortenberry wrote, criticizing what she described as an ineffective "sound wall" installed near the site.
At just six acres, the Brazoria facility is relatively small compared to the massive AI campuses planned elsewhere in Texas, but it foreshadows the growing quality of life concerns data centers will face as they expand close to residential areas.
"The data center that was put near our home in Brazoria on 6 acres has been mentally and physically exhausting. The noise rattles you to the core 24/7," wrote Melissa Burnett.
Unlike normal office buildings, data centers operate around the clock and require extensive cooling mechanisms to keep thousands of servers from overheating. Those systems generate a constant mechanical hum that can travel hundreds of feet beyond facility boundaries.
"When operating, data centers emit sounds from the humming of cooling systems and air chillers, the rumbling of diesel generators, and the whirring of fans. Together, these sounds can be heard for hundreds of feet around the facilities," according to a recent report on data center noise from the Environmental and Energy Study Institute.
Beyond simple annoyance, the report also states that surrounding residents have reported headaches, vertigo, nausea, sleep disturbances, ear pain, and hypertension from prolonged exposure to the constant noise.
The phenomenon is not exclusive to Texas. In the past few weeks, noise from data centers gained national attention after a video capturing the eerie "hum" noise outside a data facility in Virginia went viral.
Currently, Virginia is home to the world's largest concentration of data centers, with cities such as Ashburn being dubbed "data center alley." However, by 2030, experts estimate that Texas will overtake Virginia as the world's largest data center market due to its lower land costs and energy access.
One of the companies helping drive that expansion, Vantage Data Centers, is already constructing what it describes as its largest campus yet outside of Abilene.
The project, known as "Frontier," will span roughly 1,200 acres and will eventually host 10 data center facilities equipped to produce up to 1.4 gigawatts of electricity.
By comparison, the Frontier campus in Texas will be more than 23 times the size of the facility caught on camera in Virginia and will emit nearly seven times more electricity.
And if smaller facilities are already generating complaints loud enough to go viral, some Texans are beginning to wonder what happens when the world’s largest AI campuses fully power on.
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Anyone live in Pecan Pointe or Colonial Crossing?
If so what has been your experience? I’m leaning more towards Pecan Pointe because it’s close to a lot of different things, but the manager there seems a bit spicy.
Coming into your city for a few weeks for work. Done some looking on Google and it looks like there’s decent bass fishing around Temple. How easy will it be for me to grab a rod and a license and fish from shore?? Thanks in advance.
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From the "lab" deductible to the "emergency" room deductible to the "inpatient" deductible. Like, where are these coming from? The only thing on my insurance is my individual deductible and out-of-pocket max. Whenever I call my insurance company (BCBS), they are trying to figure out the same thing. So what's the deal? Mind you, I've already met my individual deductible and OOP max, but they're still trying to charge me for things. It's like a back-and-forth with BSW and BCBS. I'm exhausted.
Not sure if this is allowed or what not so delete if not, but I can’t find anywhere to go around Temple to make friends that aren’t crazy, on hard drugs and/or married.
I’m a 29M in relatively good shape, and in kind of a situationship(?) I like to fish, hunt, shoot guns, video games and basically everything… I drive a big ass truck (per usual I know)
I don’t do drugs— and don’t care if you do to a limit—or drink very often but damnit I need some actual damn friends 😂 ones that don’t let me bail out on them bc I’m feeling lazy.
Thoughts? Inquiries? 😂
I’m dying out here💀
I bought a car from one of their dealerships many years ago and their sales people think they are entitled to text me with sales offers constantly. I contacted the big sales manager and asked they stop multiple times but they will not. One sales person texted me 27 photos of a car he's trying to sell. What a trashy, sleazy business.
Title. Looking for a family lawyer/firm to help with some direction.
