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    Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons

    Benn Jordan

    5 HN recommenders · recommended in 5 months, 2026

    YouTube

    29:05 · 1.8M views · Feb 18, 2026

    Benn Jordan investigates infrasound and low-frequency noise from data centers, including xAI's Colossus and a crypto mine, and reports his own experiments on the effects. The video covers the health and community impacts on nearby residents.

    Cited in data center siting debates as evidence that noise and infrasound can seriously affect people living nearby.

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    10 comments from Hacker News

    1. @soulofmischiefMar 2026· in “Montana Leads the Nation with Groundbreaking Right to Compute Act”

      This research presentation from Benn Jordan will hopefully change your mind on the noise issue and its consequences. I highly recommend it. this video

      Strongly recommendsView on HN
    2. @schainksApr 2026· in “Missouri town fires half its city council over data center deal”

      Plugging this video about infrasound, which I only recently learned was a thing: this video These datacenters can be built in ways to limit this kind of noise pollution, but it appears local leaders do not think about things like this that can truly harm their constituents.

      RecommendsView on HN
    3. @code_biologistJun 2026· in “Meta steals a tactic from Tesla and builds data centers in tents”

      Yes, the noise pollution is insane. Benn Jordan's YT video "Datacenters Behaving Like Acoustic Weapons" is an insightful, scary 30 min video covering the datacenter infrasound noise, and the nasty things infrasound does to people: this video

      RecommendsView on HN
    4. @e40May 2026· in “Why We've Filed a Referendum”

      Watch these this video [LINK] [LINK] Then, tell me if you want to live anywhere near those. Then, tell me of a nuclear power plant that has that bad a repo.

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    5. @TornMay 2026· in “Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200”

      This is a really great watch from Benn Jordan on the topic this video Some wild things happening with those, and infrasound. Colossus is shown 4 mins in

      RecommendsView on HN