Residents of Dowagiac, Michigan, just filed a lawsuit against a data center that allegedly generates a high-pitched whining sound — and has done so 24/7 for the past two years.
The data center, which is owned by Alliance Cloud Services LLC, a subsidiary of Hyperscale Data, used to be an industrial building that sat behind a row of pine trees across the street from the most affected residents, according to ABC-affiliateWXYZ. The site started development in 2018 and was eventually turned into a cryptocurrency mining center in 2021. But in 2024, something changed drastically when the building started emitting noise pollution around the clock. Residents say it sounds like a vacuum cleaner in their living room, and the company has offered to buy up homes from unhappy residents.
That’s very decent if them, but the thing is, there’s now strong demand for those houses, as there’s a corporate buyer looking to purchase them, so the price has gone up a bit. Say by an extra digit or so added to the value.
Yup, if say, the going rate for the houses were 400k, we’ll they should now be 4 mil each
Nah, they’ll have the government eminent domain the houses for pennies on the dollar
Can’t eminent domain for a data center that’s already built.
Can do it for expanding a data center
Are they expanding? Because the article is about noise.
Other poster isn’t being difficult, facetious, or provocative, btw. The scumbags have already done exactly that, in other US states, already. Often. The articles are all over Lemmy.
The developer mentions wanting to expand in the article
Thanks, I missed that as I was skimming. Jeeze, really burying the lede there that a company already fucking up the neighborhood wants to get bigger.
Can’t have a neighborhood complaining about noise if there’s no neighborhood
It’s mainly about the noise but the article does mention
Expanding “in the footprint” would mean adding more operations to the existing property, not taking more property. Unless that’s a typo
With the current government they’ll be able to eminent domain when they feel like it.
also if you have a lower interest rate than is available today (likely) then your payments are going to go up even if you buy a house at the exact same price. not to mention the cost and hassle of moving.