Ethics
The Cloud Has Sound: The Unrelenting and Unseen Cost of A.I. Data Centers
Residents living near rapidly multiplying AI data centers report chronic exposure to low-frequency noise and vibration that they say is measurably harming their health and degrading their homes — a consequence that does not appear in the balance sheets of the companies responsible. The piece is a necessary corrective to the abstracted language of "infrastructure" and "compute," restoring the human and environmental costs to their proper visibility. It is the kind of accountability journalism that the AI boom urgently needs more of.
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